April Fools' from Comcast

Hi Jason, It's April Fools' Day. To celebrate, we spent a couple minutes earlier this week dreaming up some quality jokey headlines to send to your inboxes. For example: "Comcast Merges With House Energy & Commerce Committee to Increase Synergy." And: "Comcast Abandons Business Because Title II Net Neutrality Was Just Too Scary." But then we realized something. The actual, real-life headlines about Comcast are so horrible it's hard to believe they aren't a joke. For example: "Comcast Changed Customer's Name to 'Asshole Brown' but Is Totally Sorry."1 And: "New Homeowner Has to Sell House Because of Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Competition."2 This is what we're up against: a company so bad we can't write jokes that come close to what they're actually doing. So on this April Fools' Day, we ask you this: Could you donate $10 to help us fight the evil that is Comcast? As you know, Comcast is trying to buy out Time Warner Cable to get even more mammoth and exert even more control over our Internet connections. This is a company that skips out on its taxes in its cash-broke home city of Philadelphia. It's a company that's violated Net Neutrality over and over. And need we remind you again that those last two headlines above are real? Defeating a company this powerful isn't easy. It takes smart lawyers and lobbyists, which we have. It takes creative and talented organizers, which we have. But for us to do our work we need the support of people like you. Donate $10 today to help us stop Comcast. Because the amount of control Comcast wants over our lives is no joke. Thanks for all that you do— Mary Alice, Carrie and the rest of the Free Press Action Fund team freepress.net P.S. How horrible is Comcast? Let us count the ways! Check out this blog post for all the details and chip in $10 (or more!) today to help us rein in this behemoth. Thank you! P.P.S. Free Press won a spot on April's fundraising challenge from CREDO. We're in the running to win up to $100,000 so please vote for us today.   1. "Comcast Changed Customer's Name to 'Asshole Brown' but Is Totally Sorry," Gizmodo, Jan. 28, 2015: gizmodo.com/comcast-changed-customers-name-to-asshole-brown-but-i-1682409072 2. "New Homeowner Has to Sell House Because of Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Competition," Consumerist, March 25, 2015: consumerist.com/2015/03/25/new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition/

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