cheer

Back in February, when the FCC held a hearing about Comcast's secretive traffic shaping efforts, Comcast stacked the deck to some extent by hiring people off the street to fill seats and cheer for Comcast's position.

Partly in response to outrage over such practices, the FCC scheduled a new hearing, to be held today at Stanford.

Perhaps Comcast realized that without paying people to fill the seats, the crowd might be a bit more hostile.