Tirconnell
02-27-2008, 05:19 PM
Comcast Hiring People To Attend FCC Meetings
Get this, Comcast has admitted to hiring people off the street to fill the seats at yesterday’s FCC hearing to keep opponents out of the room. Comcast says the people hired were simply holding places for legit employees that wanted to attend but eyewitnesses (and cameramen) say different.
Consider this: One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday—and effectively keep some of its opponents out of the room. Broadband giant Comcast—the subject of the F.C.C. hearing on network neutrality at the Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts—acknowledged that it did exactly that.
Get this, Comcast has admitted to hiring people off the street to fill the seats at yesterday’s FCC hearing to keep opponents out of the room. Comcast says the people hired were simply holding places for legit employees that wanted to attend but eyewitnesses (and cameramen) say different.
Consider this: One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday—and effectively keep some of its opponents out of the room. Broadband giant Comcast—the subject of the F.C.C. hearing on network neutrality at the Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts—acknowledged that it did exactly that.