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...violates passengers' first amendment rights by manipulating them as a "captive audience" to watch advertisements, according to Wendy Hamer, one of the group's organizers. The 12-person group also objects to the collaboration of a state agency and Metrovision of North America, a cable company which provides programming for subway televisions around the country...
...Hamer said that MBTA, Metrovision and Channel 5, the Boston ABC affiliate, have negotiated an exclusive deal to air a mixture of paid advertisements, paid news programming, and transit information...
...Network news and the commuter state has sold the ridership of the T to a third party," Hamer said. "It's just another example of how public and private interests are in conflict...
...Hamer said she and fellow organizer Lydia Eccles decided to take legal action in March when they first heard of the MBTA's plans...
...Hamer and Eccles researched their case and then presented it to the American Civil Liberties Union, which agreed to lodge a complaint, Hamer said...