Here's some news to make you feel icky all over: Comcast paid disinterested uninterested squatters and employees to fill up the room at the FCC hearing at Harvard Law. With supporters and ambivalent attendees taking up real estate 90 minutes beforehand, protestors were unable to enter the building.
This is going to make you feel ickier: Comcast
Critics aren't exactly buying that, though, especially after talking to a couple of the squatters themselves.
A large percentage of the crowd wore yellow hi-lighters, presumably in Comcast solidarity and not to match the bus they must have come in on. As you might imagine, Net Neutrality activists are not amused. "First, Comcast was caught blocking the Internet," said Timothy Karr, campaign director of SavetheInternet.com "Now it has been caught blocking the public from the debate. The only people cheering Comcast are those paid to do so. Clearly, Comcast will resort to just about any underhanded tactic to stack the decks in its favor. And yet Comcast still expects us to trust them with the future of the Internet?" The "cheering" Karr's referring to is probably what a commentator noted at the SaveTheInternet.com blog, explaining why there was such raucous applause each time Comcast executive VP
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