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Big business blocks the public from meeting with the FCC

Posted by Dustin D. on March 19, 2008 around 10am

Reporters from Savetheinternet.org found that Comcast – or someone who really likes Comcast – evidently bused in its own crowd of seat warmers to a February 2008 public hearing about net neutrality. Hundreds of citizens, many of whom had taken the day off of work, were turned away at the door and not allowed to speak their concerns in front of the FCC Commissioners. Read the full report here along with video and audio evidence of the seat warmers being paid to fill the room.

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