Comcast's statement about Tor

Looks like Comcast made an official statement concerning Tor. Looks like they permit it and the VP even claims to have used it lol. Hopefully this saves some people from buying a VPN and its not necessary to use a bridge.

On Monday morning, a report surfaced claiming that Comcast has been discouraging customers from using the Tor Browser, a browsing program designed to allow users to surf the Internet with greater anonymity than most browsers. Monday's report was repackaged on a number of other sites, stating that Comcast has "declared war on the Tor Browser." The report goes on to suggest that Comcast has contacted some users telling them that they risk disconnection if they continue using Tor. The report may have generated a lot of clicks but is totally inaccurate.  

Comcast is not asking customers to stop using Tor, or any other browser for that matter. We have no policy against Tor, or any other browser or software. Customers are free to use their Xfinity Internet service to visit any website, use any app, and so forth. 

Here are the facts:

  • Comcast doesn't monitor our customer's browser software, web surfing or online history.

  • The anecdotal chat room evidence described in these reports is not accurate.  

  • We respect customer privacy and security and only investigate and disclose certain information about a customer's account with a valid court order or other appropriate legal process, just like other ISPs. More information about these policies can be found in our Transparency Report here.

  • We do not terminate customers for violating the Copyright Alert System (aka "six strikes"), which is a non-punitive, educational and voluntary copyright program. Read more here.

Our customers can use Tor at any time, as I have myself.  I'm sure many of them are using it right now. 

http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/setting-the-record-straight-on-tor

tl;dr Comcast permits Tor usage.


Comments


[10 Points] presari0:

"No no no, we didnt mean it like that.. We were being sarcastic! Did you take us literally... Oh lols, you sillys.. We love tor! Fuck, im the VP and I use tor allllll the time."

.."oh yeah, and we totally dont monitor your internet use."


[7 Points] None:

I believed them until they said they don't monitor users web surfing.


[3 Points] ciphersexual:

Anyone have a link to this "report?" Thanks OP.


[3 Points] None:

Worst part about this is this very sub was brought up over and over and over. This was the source sub for that thread. We don't need attention like this.


[2 Points] donttellmymomwhatido:

I don't really have a stake in this dnm game beyond trading crypto but I'd advise everyone to take everything comcast says with a grain of salt.


[1 Points] sshootanthraxx:

Considering how cheap a vpn is i wont ever not use one again. Even if not for DNM, for downloading torrents its great. I got a few dcma warnings and they stopped now :). It makes me feel good knwoing everythings encrypted and my ip says france or germany or hwatever i select.


[1 Points] None:

Comcast doesn’t monitor our customer’s browser software, web surfing or online history.

But you sell it to advertising companies and the gov't right?