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According to Aaron, more than 100 people were turned away from the hearing. Berkman Center fellow Wendy M. Seltzer ’96, who arrived at the hearing shortly before 11 a.m., was initially turned away from the hearing by HUPD officers and used the back staircase to gain entrance to the room...
...these people come in and occupy seats throughout the first half of the day when the Comcast panel took place,” Seltzer said. She said it seemed pretty clear that these people were there to provide support for Comcast, noting that most of those seats were vacated during the second half of the hearing...
...don’t think it achieved anything for Comcast,” Seltzer said of the people’s presence. “I think it was quite obvious to the commissioners that this was not grassroots support that had just materialized for Comcast...
There was less concern with the influence the group’s presence may have had on the commissioners than with the part it played in keeping some people out of the room, Seltzer said...
...seems like a troubling restriction on the general public’s ability to get in there,” said Seltzer. “There were people lining up outside that were genuinely interested in the issue...