{"id":2231,"date":"2008-02-26T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2008-02-26T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T20:39:02","slug":"report-comcast-paid-for-people-to-fill-seats-at-fcc-net-neutrality-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/02\/report-comcast-paid-for-people-to-fill-seats-at-fcc-net-neutrality-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Comcast paid for people to fill seats at FCC Net Neutrality hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/241672791\/report-comcast-paid.html\" >Report: Comcast paid for people to fill seats at FCC Net Neutrality hearing<\/a>:<br \/>\nNicholas from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmiro.com\" >Miro<\/a> says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is pretty unbelievable&#8212; there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmiro.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/fcc-hearing-monday-in-boston-future-of-the-internet\/\" >FCC hearing about Net Neutrality in Harvard yesterday<\/a> where we had a booth.  Comcast was PAYING PEOPLE TO FILL UP SEATS AND CHEER FOR THEM. Tons of folks, including reporters, got turned away. For people that still have a hard time wrapping their heads around what net neutrality is, this about sums up what&#8217;s happening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public\/\" >it&#8217;s well documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our very own Dean Jansen was there, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmiro.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/huge-cost-savings-bittorrent-vs-http\/\" >check out this nice graphic he made<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Comcast paid for people to fill seats at FCC Net Neutrality hearing: Nicholas from Miro says, This is pretty unbelievable&#8212; there was an FCC hearing about Net Neutrality in Harvard yesterday where we had a booth. Comcast was PAYING PEOPLE TO FILL UP SEATS AND CHEER FOR THEM. Tons of folks, including reporters, got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/02\/report-comcast-paid-for-people-to-fill-seats-at-fcc-net-neutrality-hearing\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: Comcast paid for people to fill seats at FCC Net Neutrality hearing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-zZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}