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[ NNSquad ] Comcast Used This 'Spooky' Propaganda to Kill Off a Local Internet Competitor
Comcast Used This 'Spooky' Propaganda to Kill Off a Local Internet Competitor
(Vice): http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fliers-full-of-lies-comcast-used-to-kill-off-a-local-internet-competitor
In the months and weeks leading up to the vote, the two companies
bombarded residents and city council members with disinformation,
exaggerations, and outright lies to ensure the measure failed. It did,
narrowly, twice: In April 2003 and November 2004. Before the ISPs'
disinformation campaigns, support for the project was up over 72
percent. The series of two-sided postcards painted municipal
broadband as a foolhardy endeavor unfit for adults, responsible
people, and perhaps as not something a smart woman would do. Municipal
fiber was a gamble, a high-wire act, a game, something as "SCARY" as a
ghost. Why build a municipal fiber network, one asked, when "internet
service [is] already offered by two respectable private businesses?"
In the corner, in tiny print, each postcard said "paid for by SBC" or
"paid for by Comcast."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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