- Act Now - Open Internet - Promoting Creativity - Open &
Accessible Technology There are many situations in which
Internet access providers have the ability and incentive to
block legal online video. A movie studio or cable company could
potentially pay an Internet access provider to slow down or
block their competitors. Internet access providers that are also
cable providers have an anticompetitive incentive to slow or
block alternative, online media. And Internet access providers
that are cable providers and also content creators, like the
merged entity that is Comcast-NBCU, have an even greater
incentive to do so. Public Knowledge’s Position If permitted,
these practices would prove detrimental not only to consumers,
who would face fewer options for accessing video, but also to
innovators in the online video space, who would see their
ability to reach consumers subject to the anticompetitive whims
of big media. Public Knowledge is also against the use of
blocking access to online content as a bargaining t