Comcast Floods FCC Hearing With Paid Placeholders: Critics

Comcast Floods FCC Hearing With Paid Placeholders: Critics

How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators?

Consider this: One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday--and effectively keep some of its opponents out of the room.

Broadband giant Comcast--the subject of the F.C.C. hearing on net neutrality at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts--acknowledged that it did exactly that.

Comcast spokewoman Jennifer Khoury said the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.

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Read more about Monday's FCC hearing, as well as the commission's probe into whether they should be taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from delaying the downloads and uploads of heavy Internet users.

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