The recent  FCC decision to enforce action against Comcast over its network management policies caused both enthusiasm as well as disturbance among all 'players' involved.

According to the Wall Street Journal, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that "Comcast was delaying subscribers' downloads and blocking their uploads. It was doing so 24/7, regardless of the amount of congestion on the network or how small the file might be. Even worse, Comcast was hiding that fact by making affected users think there was a problem with their Internet connection or the application. Today, the commission tells Comcast to stop."

In short, Comcast was blocking users using disfavored Internet applications such as peer-to-peer file sharing services like BitTorrent.  The retractors of the decision argued through the voice of the Comcast spokeswoman Sena Fitzmaurice that Comcast was “disappointed in the commission's divided conclusion because we believe that our network management choices were reasonable, wholly consistent with industry practices and that we did not block access to Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services."

Curiously enough, the rest of the industry, represented by the National Cable and Telecommunication Association (NCTA), stood by Comcast's side because this FCC rule would apply to the whole industry. The argument, again, revolved around the well-known industry practices. What is even stranger was that the NCTA sent the FCC a chart of the network management practices at the nation's top colleges and universities where places like Princeton or Harvard “prohibit peer-to-peer file sharing software from being installed or used on computers it provides its employees or students.”

The question that remains to be answered is why would somebody say that it didn't eat peanut butter and in order to sustain that claim is pointing at the next guy with a handful of peanut butter.