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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that Comcast "blocking" access to HBO Go has anything to do with net neutrality. In that case Comcast is saying that the HBO cable subscription they sell doesn't include HBO Go access. This is possible because of the requirement to "authenticate" your HBO Go access through your cable/satellite provider.

So that has more to do with television than internet regulation IMO.

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But it does, on PC. Just not PS4 and PS3.

I can login to HBO GO with my Comcast account on PC just fine, always have been able to.

It's still an agreement between Comcast and HBO based on TV subscriptions - it's not like Comcast is null routing the packets that would allow "authentication". Luckily, the market (i.e. HBO, in the face of consumer demand and competition) has already worked around these stifling agreements by providing the unbundled HBO Now. Which Comcast can't block, DNSSEC misconfiguration notwithstanding.

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