They were shills, after all…
As someone remarked in class, it was suspicious that Comcast and Verizon had such a vocal cheering section. But perhaps this explains it.
I think they would’ve been more believable, though, had the group not sat all in the same section, and perhaps also hissed some of the more strident pro-network neutrality applause lines.

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