Homeless? Comcast Will Pay To Attend FCC Hearings
Media giant Comcast was caught red-handed packing an FCC hearing on network neutrality in Boston with random people picked up off the street (see pic above) in order to keep critics of the corporation from attending.
An attendee affiliated with the non-profit group “Save the Internet” photographed a Comcast-affiliated organizer handing the individuals papers outside the meeting and interviewed one of them:
One told us that he was “just getting paid to hold someone’s seat.” He added that he had no idea what the meeting was about.
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