Why Does Comcast Hate Democracy?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008As we contemplate moving sometime this summer, I occasionally wonder about how we should arrange our internet and telecoms. Right now we have a very basic landline with DSL through Verizon, which I’m mostly fairly happy with, except that we really make very little use of the landline, now that we each have cell phones. So sometimes I think maybe we should go with basic cable and internet in the next place. We don’t really do a lot of TV, either, but perhaps it have slightly more utility to us than the slightly superfluous phone line?
The trouble is, while I’m sure that Verizon is no angel in these matters, Comcast, one of the biggest cable internet providers, is just descpicable: they admitted today to paying and busing in 100+ people to “hold places” for Comcast employees at an FCC hearing in Cambridge today, effectively shutting out many citizens who had shown up to protest Comcast’s practices.
No. No way. This is unacceptable. I will not do business with a company that treats the public this way.
Come to think of it, that extra phone line might come in handy for calling my congresspeople.