Groups cheer reports of FCC acting against Comcast

Randolph May, president of conservative think tank The Free State Foundation, called the reports of the FCC's intentions "very disturbing." Comcast has begun working with the company called BitTorrent and other vendors of Web applications on new ways to manage network traffic, he noted.

"This would mean the agency is embarking on a course likely leading to more intrusive regulation of broadband Internet services," May said. "Collaborating with BitTorrent and many other industry players, Comcast is moving towards a protocol-agnostic network management regime by the end of this year. So, this is not a good case for the FCC to go out on a limb and test its legal authority to regulate the Internet."

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