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Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1339098" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/cables-companies-are-astroturfing-fake-consumer-support-to-end-net-neutrality?noredirection=true" target="_blank"><strong>Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality - Vice</strong></a></p><p></p><p>A disclosure obtained by VICE from the National Cable and Telecom Association (NCTA), a trade group for ISPs, shows that the bulk of Broadband for America's recent $3.5 million budget is funded through a $2 million donation from NCTA. Last month, Broadband for America wrote a letter to the FCC bluntly demanding that the agency “categorically reject” any effort toward designating broadband as a public utility. It wasn't signed by any internet consumer advocates, as the Sununu-Ford letter suggests. The signatures on the letter reads like a who's who of ISP industry presidents and CEOs, including AT&T's Randall Stephenson, Cox Communications' Patrick Esser, NCTA president (and former FCC commissioner) Michael Powell, Verizon's Lowell McAdam, and Comcast's Brian Roberts.</p><p></p><p>Notably, Broadband for America's most recent tax filing shows that it retained the DCI Group, an infamous lobbying firm that specializes in creating fake citizen groups on behalf of corporate campaigns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1339098, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.vice.com/read/cables-companies-are-astroturfing-fake-consumer-support-to-end-net-neutrality?noredirection=true'][B]Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality - Vice[/B][/URL] A disclosure obtained by VICE from the National Cable and Telecom Association (NCTA), a trade group for ISPs, shows that the bulk of Broadband for America's recent $3.5 million budget is funded through a $2 million donation from NCTA. Last month, Broadband for America wrote a letter to the FCC bluntly demanding that the agency “categorically reject” any effort toward designating broadband as a public utility. It wasn't signed by any internet consumer advocates, as the Sununu-Ford letter suggests. The signatures on the letter reads like a who's who of ISP industry presidents and CEOs, including AT&T's Randall Stephenson, Cox Communications' Patrick Esser, NCTA president (and former FCC commissioner) Michael Powell, Verizon's Lowell McAdam, and Comcast's Brian Roberts. Notably, Broadband for America's most recent tax filing shows that it retained the DCI Group, an infamous lobbying firm that specializes in creating fake citizen groups on behalf of corporate campaigns. [/QUOTE]
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