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Astroturfing Leads To $20 Billion Comcast Discrimination Suit

We've noted for years how companies like AT&T and Comcast are at the cutting edge of throwing money at minority and other groups, then having them parrot support for the companies' latest ambitions -- be that getting a merger approved or fighting net neutrality rules. The Comcast merger has been no exception; want funding for a new events center? Comcast will be happy to contribute provided your group issues a statement saying its merger is a massive boon to the minority community.

Interestingly, Comcast's now facing a $20 billion lawsuit over charges that it has conspired with many minority community leaders -- including Al Sharpton -- to farm artificial support for policies that actually harm minority communities and reduce diversity in programming. That includes farmed support for Comcast's last merger (NBC) and the company's acquisition of Time Warner Cable:
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...With slaps at Time Warner Cable throughout also, the far reaching complaint says that these millions and support from Rev. Sharpton and the others greased concerns over the Comcast NBC-Universal merger of 2009 and have allowed Comcast to now broadcast only a single totally African-American owned channel.
Unsurprisingly Comcast denies the charges, calling the lawsuit a "string of inflammatory, inaccurate, and unsupported allegations."

Comcast Al Sharpton Discrimination Suit


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Mike
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Mike

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So Comcast and Al Sharpton

Is there some way that everyone can lose?