[IP] Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill Missouri municipal net

[Dave Farber]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <***@vortex.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:06 PM
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that
secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign
to kill Missouri municipal net
To: <***@nnsquad.org>



Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created
the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill
Missouri municipal net

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/08/it-wasnt-for-you-darned-kids.html

Isaac Protiva wanted to know who was behind the "Stop
City-Funded Internet" campaign that was pouring a fortune into
scuttling the plan to build a fast, efficient, low-cost city
network in his hometown of West Plains, Missouri; after a lot
of digging, he discovered that (naturally), the "collection of
fiscally conservative Missourians" who were nominally behind
the site was actually the local cable-monopoly, Fidelity
Communications, who came clean (but never apologized).

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