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In reference to the FCC hearings:
Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.

Here’s the explanation from a Comcast spokesperson:
The company didn’t intend to block anyone from attending the hearing. “Comcast informed our local employees about the hearing and invited them to attend,” she said. “Some employees did attend, along with many members of the general public.”

Translation: “Yeah we paid our employees to be there and only a few of them showed, so we hired a bunch of strangers off the street to make sure enough seats were taken so that the people who filed against us wouldn’t be able to get inside. –What’s it to you?”

A number of people in the audience wore yellow highlighter marking pens on their shirts or jackets; Free Press campaign director Timothy Karr said that was to identify them to Comcast employees coordinating the company’s appearance at the event. Khoury acknowledged that Comcast coordinated the employees that it brought to the hearing.
—-Maybe the yellow highlighters were the only way to tell their employees from street people.

This video giving their opinion of the event is from savetheinternet.com.

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