GLAAD President Resigns

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GLAAD President Resigns After Endorsing AT&T/T-Mobile Acquisition
The aggressive sales pitch that AT&T (NYSE: T) has attached to its landmark acquisition of T-Mobile claimed its first victim over the weekend. Jarrett Barrios, head of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), submitted a letter of resignation to the group over the

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[hllangel]

I just finished a filing against this merger for work, and after digging through all of AT&T's documents about it? The 97% is pure bullshit.

As is everything else they're claiming. If anything, GLAAD should be against the merger -- AT&T has a history of censoring viewpoints they don't agree with. (As does Verizon, I might add)

[roseofjuly]

They use a shady definition of 97%. I remember reading the fine print on one of the ads. What they actually mean, I think, is that they reach 97% of land-based U.S. within the contiguous 48 states or something akin to that - it's not anywhere near 97% of the U.S. American population.

[hllangel]

The calculation of broadband maps in general is extremely sketcy, even when it's being done by the FCC. I read one report a few weeks ago that said that in some instances if even one person in a zip code is covered then they count the entire zip code.

[roseofjuly]

Oh that is just awesome, lmao. No, Verizon, I do not think that you actually have service in rural northern Montana.