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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Verizon's lines are Verizon's lines, if they want to tell me that I can't use them to transmit a picture of dinosaur bones because Verizon is anti evolution that is their right.
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Yes, that is true. Although the scale of the whole system generally limits their ability to 'watch' anything for most customers.
In general, you are not nearly as free or anonymous as you may believe. But also in general, that lack will not affect most people during their lifetime.
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Originally Posted by bobwrit
and email purposes(Which just about accounts for all of the traffic on the internet right now).
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No, not at all. It is actually peer-to-peer file transfers that consume the majority of internet traffic. eMail is a somewhat small fraction.
Also note that "excessive" is not defined anywhere, it's what they say it is whenever they want.