Whether you use Comcast as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or not, you may or may not be aware of just how much they want to control what you see and hear on the Internet, one of the few remaining places where you have an opportunity to read uncensored material not controlled by the big media outlets.

In February, Comcast physically blocked the interested public, including reporters, from seeing the FCC commisioners in a public hearing that will drastically affect the Internet as we know it. How did they do this? By busing in  a large number of people paid to "hold seats", filling the seats so that those who really wanted to be there could not get in.

For more information, here are some links of interest:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/26/152820/580/236/464551
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/26/7544/56044/526/464261