Comcast Refuses To Attend FCC Hearing

Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has opted to sit out tomorrow's Federal Communications Commission hearing on broadband network management practices at Stanford, Portfolio.com has learned.

As a result, the company will not face one of its most prominent critics, Lawrence Lessig, the iconoclastic Stanford law professor and "free culture" advocate who is set to give introductory remarks.

Although invited by the F.C.C. to discuss yesterday's announcement that it is developing a file-sharing "Bill of Rights" with peer-to-peer company Pando, Comcast has declined to attend the hearing.

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[JacobSinger]

Comcast and other cable carriers, as well as ALL industries that have wrongfully benefitted from the GOP-continual deregulation efforts that stretch all the way back to Ronnie Raygun, should be BEATEN INTO SUBMISSION.

Their unregulated price-gouging reign of unethical business practices needs to come to an end, and we are on the brink of a potential opportunity to deal them a long overdue dose of justice.

How many of the deregulated businesses have lived up to the absurd spiel they delivered about competition increasing and prices going down? Where exactly has that occurred?

It was bullshit then, and it's bullshit now.