  DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | All groups on the wrong side do this Not just cable and telcos, but all groups who are on the wrong side do this type of deceptive crap.
If they were on the right side they would have no problem getting their shill buddies to show up for free.
The fact that they have to bribe people to show up and support them speaks volumes.
This is just Astroturfing personified. | |
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | To be serious I would think that the bad PR resulting from this action would be worse than if they had just let the protesters in. It's kind of like the old saying "it is better to remain quiet and appear foolish than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." I see the protesters as making Comcast appear foolish, and I see this stunt of filling the seats with sleeping Comcast dummies as removing all doubt.
Good job, Comcast. You could have let protesters make you look bad, but instead you made yourself look bad all on your own. Bravo.
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | COMCAST: Crowd Shaping is Reasonable Seat Management said by ars technica :(article link)Excerpts... ...allegations have surfaced that Comcast paid people to show up and sit in the meeting room in order to keep people from expressing their feelings about Comcast's actions to the FCC. Save The Internet is accusing Comcast of busing in a crowd of supports to pack the room. "These seat-warmers were paid to fill the room, a move that kept others from taking part," according to a posting on the Save The Internet blog. "They arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat, upon which many promptly fell asleep." Comcast denies packing the room. "We did pay some individuals to stand in line and hold seats for Comcast employees," Comcast spokesperson Charlie Douglas told Ars. "It's a common practice in Washington, DC." (article link)
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"We don't throttle any traffic," -Charlie Douglas, Comcast spokesman, on this report. | |
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 | RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Re: COMCAST: Crowd Shaping is Reasonable Seat Management "crowd shaping"
LOL
That's perfect.
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| |  ftthzIf love can kill hate can also save
join:2005-10-17 | Re: COMCAST: Crowd Shaping is Reasonable Seat Management lol nice one | |
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| |  BabyBearKeep wise ...with Nite-Owl
join:2007-01-11 | I couldn't get at my open source seat because of the comcast isle poisoning!  | |
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| funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | COMCAST: We Paid People after SaveTheI'net Invited the Publi said by MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer :(article link)Many people were turned away before Monday's Federal Communications Commission hearing at Harvard Law School, leading critics to accuse Comcast of stifling debate over the company's practice of favoring some forms of Internet traffic over others. Comcast said it hired people to hold seats only after an advocacy group called Free Press urged its backers to attend. "For the past week, the Free Press has engaged in a much more extensive campaign to lobby people to attend the hearing on its behalf," Philadelphia-based Comcast said in a statement. (article link) 
SaveTheInternet did not pay anyone
to sit in the audience, but they
did post the above ad.
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"We don't throttle any traffic," -Charlie Douglas, Comcast spokesman, on this report. | |
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| | | Re: COMCAST: Crowd Shaping is Reasonable Seat Management Very nice. | |
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| | This is only the beginning Whenever I come across a "comcast supporter", I often wonder why this subscriber comes out to defend a company that their sole existance is buyout the competition and drive up ever increasing prices, have a large monopoly where they can dictate and change the rules as they go along and lie to people and continue be unable to support what they offer.
I wonder if they are employed by Comcast...that's the only reason why they show support.
Comcast has bandwidth limits that they refuse to tell people what exactly the limits are of their network. They clearly cut off those users that exceed their secret cap which they don't tell people what it is, and they lie about throttling bitorrent when its shown on YOU TUBE that they reset the cable modem connection thereby disrupting the torrent transfer.
They are LIARS who have gotten caught and will be facing a class-action lawsuit very soon by angry former subscribers. when that day does happen, that pathetic AUP/TOS will be thrown right out the window and watch a judge make them pay through the roof for deceptive business practices. | |
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| | | Re: This is only the beginning said by Anonymister :
Whenever I come across a "comcast supporter", I often wonder why this subscriber comes out to defend a company that their sole existance is buyout the competition and drive up ever increasing prices, have a large monopoly where they can dictate and change the rules as they go along and lie to people and continue be unable to support what they offer. LOL! The phone companies make Comcast look like a bunch of boy scouts.
How much longer do you think VZ and T will allow their customers to bypass the lucrative pay-per-view movies by running pirate2pirate servers?
Hint: Don't get between an ILEC and potential revenue. Bwahahahahahahahahahahaaa! | |
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 newviewEx .. Ex .. ExactlyPremium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
kudos:1 | I'll never put anything past Comcast What a low-life sleazeball lying company.
They'll stoop to anything, won't they? | |
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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | Hi All... Just checking in and wanted you to know I'm just back from the meeting.
All I can say is..NICE NAP!
I haven't slept that good in years.
Kidding aside..I do have to agree it's a stupid thing to do and the argument they were hiring "placeholders" for employees who apparently never showed up was just as lame.
The problem is though, if they didn't do it..would the other side do it instead and just pad the room with opposing viewpoints?
Politics..American style I guess...
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| alalperPremium
join:2000-08-20
Philadelphia, PA | Re: Hi All... said by Rick:The problem is though, if they didn't do it..would the other side do it instead and just pad the room with opposing viewpoints? I guess we'll never know, will we? Comcast saw to that.  | |
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|  gaforcesUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | Russia is doing it to, Putin pays $4.00 for people to go protest his opposition.
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| | | said by Rick:Kidding aside..I do have to agree it's a stupid thing to do and the argument they were hiring "placeholders" for employees who apparently never showed up was just as lame. The problem is though, if they didn't do it..would the other side do it instead and just pad the room with opposing viewpoints? Politics..American style I guess... The funny thing is that if the opposition did the same thing Comcast did, then we would be complaining about the opposition.
People are getting tired of laws and politicians being bought and paid for by companies who beg forgiveness rather than ask permission.
Paying for placeholders at a "public" meeting is just like buying votes. | |
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| | Time for the FCC to HAMMER comcast Well with this disturbing evidence i think i gigantic fine is needed to coral Comcast. They are obviously out of control.
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| Dreaming IF you guys don't think Verizon, AT&T, Walmart, aren't doing the same thing you guys are naive. How many people actually know about this out side of the "internet blogger" are we all are referred to?.
You guys hate Comcast because your reason. I don't like Comcast because of billing. All this fines you want the FCC to hit Comcast with are not going to really happen. Comcast just like Walmart employees whether directly or indirectly thousands of people. So when you say hurt Comcast you are talking about hurting thousands of families out there. As the market changes people will leave comcast on their own. The same thing happen to aol. | |
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join:2001-05-10
Redlands, CA | Yowzah! quote:
That should allow broadband consumers to make an intelligent choice between ISPs that throttle upstream P2P traffic and boot egregious bandwidth users (Comcast), and providers who do not (Verizon).
It's good to be da King!
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| | On Time? FCC meeting's rarely start on time, in fact, it is so rare that this meeting starting on time might qualify as a divine act. They paid people to hold a place in line, it happens all the time. Here's what Cynthia Brumfield had to say about it:
"As the Portfolio piece acknowledges "such tactics are not unheard of at congressional hearings in Washington, D.C." That's an understatement. If you've ever tried to get into any important hearing involving any industry, you know that line placeholders (and seatholders) are big business in Washington, DC, often charging $150 or more per person to show up at the Capitol at the crack of dawn."
This is what happens at any hearing, why should one in Boston be any different? | |
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