The Internet, we can all agree, has been an unrivaled environment for free speech, democratic participation and economic innovation. But many of us are worried whether the free and open Web we've always had will stay that way.

Rest easy, my friends. Comcast has taken care of everything. Or so it seemed from its March 27 press release touting its talks with BitTorrent, the company that shares a name with the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. The pair announced a “collaborative effort” to address “issues associated with rich media content and network capacity management.”

Last fall, Comcast was found to be blocking BitTorrent traffic by the Associated Press. In tests — backed up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation — AP was prevented from sharing legal content, including a copy of the Bible.

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