[Kstyle]

Well done, ROSC! Had to laugh when I saw your avatar/name...kind of hard getting a fair deal from the Priests of Cablynx, ain't it? We are well into 1984/2112, if only more folks would wake the fuck up and notice. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia...let's call Iran up too...
The more we allow DC to control us like puppets, the more we will be screwed by big biz with little recourse. But as that site you linked to shows, anger can be power. Joe Strummer always had great cable service in his squat!
If more people continued to hammer away at customer service/supervisors with the addition of complaints to local regulatory boards (everyone's got one) and maybe even a few photocopied warnings to other prospective customers duct-taped to strategic phone poles in the area, etc, I do believe the message will be delivered. Buying a small amount of stock and going to shareholders' meetings can be a very interesting and useful experieince, btw.
Or just set up a local version of that comcast-must-die blog for everyone in your area, and use specifics. Upper mgmt will get the message mighty fast that way.
It's almost hilariously ironic that they sell us all the glories of broadband and then cut us off if we try to enjoy what we pay for. Well, fuck 'em. Competition will increase as more people demand alternatives. We all need to be squeakier wheels is all. They've got us so hypnotized and full of gmo-food and tv lies in theis country that we are truly becoming sheep who will take whatever crap they feed us. This war will go on forever, 'cause so few are really complaining. I had to laugh at the "polls" which showed the other day that voters are more concerned about the economy than the war!! That's classic. No connection between them, folks! We can just go on borrowing hundreds of billions from China and Japan and watch 100-dollar oil crush our economy while Lockheed and Boeing and Exxon stock skyrockets. 9/11 sure set them up nicely to do whatever the hell they want, all in the name of "security". What a happy coincidence!
This is all connected. They want us to have the illusion of power, but not the reality. Bandwidth is power, more and more. That we can communicate and organize like this is something they fear.
And hey, y'all really think they aren't fuming that we are getting all this "free" entertainment? No taxes on each show we download? And less demand for their $20 dvds with ten minutes of ads at the beginning and then FBI ads we are forced to watch on the disc we just paid for?
Stick it to them every way you can, and if we all share what we learn, things will change.
This is our country and our money, after all.
PS Hang up immediately on anyone who calls you and won't give their name. They must identify themselves with a company id number and a first name. It's the law; use it against them for a change.