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May 16, 2006
Digging under the astroturf -- who pays for 'Hands Off the Internet' site?
Kudos to Sascha Meinrath for digging through the tedium of Whois data to find out that the "grassroots" backers of the lame "Hands Off the Internet" site are lobbyists and PR firms, presumably under contract from the big telcos and their suppliers.
Not much of a surprise, but it keeps begging the question: Why the need to hide the affilation of who's really paying the bills? Embarrassed about something? Ted and others want to know, too.
My question: Is funding for such sites built into the costs of the new high-speed connections AT&T talks about?
Posted by paul at May 16, 2006 12:39 PM