<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/122ff157-b22c-4c60-aa4f-864f8dc7059e/21E80B9B-76D8-4905-8545-595A7BB2B612/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/"><P class="storyheadline">AT&T's Hilarious and Shameless Astroturfing (or Sock-Puppeting)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/"><DIV class="teaserleft"> Now that the FCC is articulating its commitment to a free and open Internet, watch the ISPs freak out. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/"><P>AT&T has a really good (and democratic) plan to undermine FCC regulations in support of net neutrality: pressuring employees to post anti-regulation talking points on an FCC website while hiding their affiliation to the cable company. Grassroots! </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/"><P>In an internal company memo obtained by <A href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/10/20/att-boss-asks-employees-fake-it">Free Press</A>, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President James Cicconi writes "We encourage you, your family and friends to join the voices telling the FCC not to regulate the Internet. It can be done <EM>through a personal email account </EM>by going to <A linkindex="41" target="_blank" href="http://www.openinternet.gov/">www.openinternet.gov</A> and clicking on the "Join the Discussion" link." (italics added).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/"><P>That should totally work, because ordinary citizens are often inspired to make impassioned pleas about ISP regulatory policy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143404/at%26t%27s_hilarious_and_shameless_astroturfing_%28or_sock-puppeting%29/"><P>The memo also helpfully provides talking points "in addition to your own thoughts," such as:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/21E80B9B-76D8-4905-8545-595A7BB2B612/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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