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FCC Incest: Meet the Cable Cronies Who Control Net Neutrality's Future
The fate of net neutrality has never looked bleaker, with the FCC's proposed rules basically dismantling the free and open internet that we know today. You can thank the agency's notorious revolving door for that; for years, FCC officials and the people they're supposed to be regulating have been playing a horrible game of telecom musical chairs.
In fact, according to OpenSecrets.org, 18 industry leaders have both lobbied on behalf of Comcast and spent time in the public sector. Of those, 12 are currently registered as lobbyists for the anti-net-neutrality cable giant, five of whom have served tours with the FCC itself. And that's just Comcast.
Of the 465 registered telecom lobbyists, almost 75 percent have gone through the government's revolving door. All that becomes a huge problem when you consider that these well-funded political mercenaries are basically schmoozing up their former colleagues on behalf of net neutrality's biggest enemies.
What's more troubling, though, is that it's not just the bottom-feeders who have mixed loyalties. Some of the highest ranking appointed officials at the FCC have deep, vested interests in the very same companies they're supposed to be regulating.
http://gizmodo.com/fcc-incest-meet-the-cable-cronies-who-control-net-neut-1579963216
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...with the length of Comcast's Cable!
