It seems Comcast went all out on the expense account folks to try to undo a lot of the bad press it received after "beating-on" folks trying to use a service they had paid for.
http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-657.htmlThe Associated Press is reporting that Comcast spent 2.7 million dollars in the first three months of this year alone on lobbying work against net neutrality and on other issues. It's unclear how much of this money went into paying off people to attend public hearings on behalf of the company.
Comcast paid a total of 8.7 million dollars on lobbying in 2007 and only 5.5 million dollars in 2006, according to Opensecrets. The site also reveals that Comcast is running its own Political Action Committee that has paid around 1.5 million dollars to campaigns and other PACs in the 08 election cycle as of now. Amongst the recipients: Ted "a series of tubes" Stephens, whose Senate campaign has received a total of 10000 dollars in 07 and 08.
Same old hands reaching out for business cash from the corporate cookie jar it seems, regardless of the impact in terms of social or economic cost to the general population, how do people like Ted sleep at night knowing their actions are costing the US billions and their future role in leading the online world ?
Cheers to Opensecrets for their sterling work in revealing just who profits the most from anti-consumer legislation.
