Seems the Mercury News piece has now been taken down, although the comments remain.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18730079

I'm not surprised. They should be embarrassed.

I pay for my Internet bandwidth. Netflix pays for theirs. So the ISPs need a surcharge for what again? What a bunch of parasites.

This shakedown attempt is so transparent it makes SOPA look like the Magna Carta.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Just sounds to me like some incompetent writer tried to wrangle yet another op-ed out of the Comcast vs. Level 3 lawsuit. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-12-01-comcast01_ST_N....

It is quite an old article. As it says it may be in the archive though I did not check.