Community Organizations Say They Never Actually Joined Bogus Anti-Net Neutrality Astrotufing Group
"We had their letterhead. We'd just write the letter. We'd fax it to them and tell them, 'You're in favor of this.'"
Via Techdirt:
All the way back in 2008, we wrote about an increasingly common practice among slimy DC lobbyists to "sign up" clueless organizations to be used as astroturfing figureheads. For example, it seemed odd that corn farmers were suddenly interested in internet ad rates. The original article, by Declan McCullagh, included the money quote from an anonymous person involved in those kinds of astroturfing schemes:
"You go down the Latino people, the deaf people, the farmers, and choose them.... You say, 'I can't use this one--I already used them last time...' We had their letterhead. We'd just write t...