I read this with disbelief folks, a new low in Comcasts efforts to mislead and defraud their customers.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080226-comcast-denies-crowd-shaping-crowd-delaying-at-fcc-hearing.htmlYesterday's hearing into Comcast's traffic-shaping practices at Harvard Law School attracted a huge crowd, one so large that people who arrived over an hour before it started were turned away. It was a packed house for a good show, one that featured Comcast and net neutrality proponents making their case in front of the five commissioners of the FCC.
A day after, 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."
Over 100 people were turned away from the meeting by campus police once the room reached capacity. "First, Comcast was caught blocking the Internet. Now it has been caught blocking the public from the debate," said Save The Internet campaign director Timothy Karr in a statement. "The only people cheering Comcast are those paid to do so."
This sort of activity is not only immoral its beyond belief, whoever decided on implementing such a rigged crowd scheme should step down from their position in the company and make a public apology, this should not be the sort of employee's Comcasts directors and CEO should be seen as backing.
