The best thing to come out of last week’s FCC hearing into Comcast Corp.’s Internet polices had nothing to do with the subject of the hearing. The purpose of the hearing was to look into the communications giant’s network management practices.

But the thing that tickled me about the news story was the fact that Comcast got caught doing something that Big Cable and other companies have been getting away with for years: packing audiences at government hearings with their own supporters and otherwise planting straws with the intention of creating the illusion of public support for their business policies.

This time Comcast got caught with its pants down, and here’s hoping that the episode will remind public officials and citizens that these companies will do absolutely anything they can get away with.
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