{"id":18092,"date":"2011-05-20T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=18092"},"modified":"2011-05-21T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:00:39","slug":"depraved-soul-of-comcast-and-heroic-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2011\/05\/20\/depraved-soul-of-comcast-and-heroic-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The depraved soul of Comcast, and the actions of heroic girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard enough about Comcast<\/a> to disgust you yet, check out the stunt<\/a> Comcast pulled regarding a non-profit summer film camp for girls. Comcast displayed raw vindictiveness when one of the girls showed disrespect by criticizing FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Attwell for taking a high-paying job lobbying for Comcast only four months after approving the Comcast-NBC merger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The details of the story are shocking, and these girls have become my heroes. Here’s the account from a letter I received from Free Press today:<\/p>\n

When Seattle\u2019s Reel Grrls \u2013 an award-winning program that teaches teenage girls to make their own media \u2013 criticized Comcast on Twitter for its outrageous hiring of FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Comcast came after them. A Comcast VP immediately fired off an email saying the company was cutting off $18,000 in funding it had pledged for a summer camp teaching filmmaking, editing and screenwriting. Without those funds, the Reel Grrls camp won\u2019t happen. We need to stand up to Comcast\u2019s censors \u2013 and show these young media justice activists we\u2019ve got their backs. Can you give $25 to Reel Grrls to keep their summer camp going without Comcast\u2019s cash? Reel Grrls didn\u2019t back down or delete their tweet. They didn\u2019t let Comcast silence them. Instead, they called their allies and alerted the media. And once the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Associated Press got hold of the story, Comcast suddenly changed its tune. It claimed the threats were “unauthorized” and said it wouldn\u2019t yank the funds. But Reel Grrls are sticking to their principles. They\u2019re telling Comcast to keep its money if it\u2019s going to try to censor what they say.<\/p>\n

Here’s yet another account of this story that includes the Tweet that started the troubles.<\/a> After reading these accounts tonight, I was so moved that sent the girls $100 to help them carry on with their education. If you’re interested in helping out, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

This story illustrates the vast power the big telecoms have and the fact that they are all-too-willing to abuse that power. This is an illustration of what the telecoms have in mind for all of us with regard to net neutrality. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard enough about Comcast<\/a> to disgust you yet, check out the stunt<\/a> Comcast pulled regarding a non-profit summer film camp for girls. Comcast displayed raw vindictiveness when one of the girls showed disrespect by criticizing FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Attwell for taking a high-paying job lobbying for Comcast only four months after approving the Comcast-NBC merger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The details of the story are shocking, and these girls have become my heroes. Here’s the account from a letter I received from Free Press today:<\/p>\n

When Seattle\u2019s Reel Grrls \u2013 an award-winning program that teaches teenage girls to make their own media \u2013 criticized Comcast on Twitter for its outrageous hiring of FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Comcast came after them. A Comcast VP immediately fired off an email saying the company was cutting off $18,000 in funding it had pledged for a summer camp teaching filmmaking, editing and screenwriting. Without those funds, the Reel Grrls camp won\u2019t happen. We need to stand up to Comcast\u2019s censors \u2013 and show these young media justice activists we\u2019ve got their backs. Can you give $25 to Reel Grrls to keep their summer camp going without Comcast\u2019s cash? Reel Grrls didn\u2019t back down or delete their tweet. They didn\u2019t let Comcast silence them. Instead, they called their allies and alerted the media. And once the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Associated Press got hold of the story, Comcast suddenly changed its tune. It claimed the threats were “unauthorized” and said it wouldn\u2019t yank the funds. But Reel Grrls are sticking to their principles. They\u2019re telling Comcast to keep its money if it\u2019s going to try to censor what they say.<\/p>\n

Here’s yet another account of this story that includes the Tweet that started the troubles.<\/a> After reading these accounts tonight, I was so moved that sent the girls $100 to help them carry on with their education. If you’re interested in helping out, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

This story illustrates the vast power the big telecoms have and the fact that they are all-too-willing to abuse that power. This is an illustration of what the telecoms have in mind for all of us with regard to net neutrality. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6042,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism-media","category-media","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}