Friday, August 11, 2006

From the Don't Get Fooled Department via Common Cause:

"Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, Part 2:
More Telecom Industry Front Groups and Astroturf

Back in March, Common Cause released its first "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing" report, detailing the activities of nine groups masquerading as think tanks and public interest organizations, but controlled by telephone and cable companies. Since then, we've gotten the dirt on five more.

For example, Hands off the Internet sounds like activists wanting to protect the Internet.  Actually, it's a telecommunications industry-backed organization that was spending $20,000 a day on television commercials aimed at eliminating long-standing net neutrality protections so that telephone and cable companies can maximize profit and minimize competition on the Internet.

Click here to download the report and read the truth about all five groups.

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