Comcast Tries To Polish Its ImageIt's been a bad few months for Comcast. Ever since the cable giant was caught blocking access to the BitTorrent file-sharing engine, the cable behemoth has been targeted as a symbol of the need for net neutrality, the principle that all content on the Internet should be accessed equally. It's been hit with an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission, for which chairman Kevin Martin recently recommended the company be penalized.
It's also been served with a lawsuit from a customer over the content blocking, the outcome of which is on hold pending the FCC's final ruling in its investigation. If that weren't enough, Comcast incurred another black eye by hiring people to fill up seats at an FCC hearing in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the issue, blocking critics of the company from getting in.
It's no wonder that the company has been doing its best to polish its tarnished public image on as many fronts as possible, even in unexpected ways. The cable company recently found itself at odds with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over blocking access to Usenet newsgroups in order to stop the spread of child pornography.
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