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'''Fidelity Communications''' is a telecommunications company in [[Missouri]], [[United States]] which provides residential and business internet, television and phone services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=4440238|title=Fidelity Communications Co., Inc.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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In 2017 Fidelity Communications hired DM Web Dev Group to run an [[astroturfing]] campaign to discredit the city-run fiber broadband service in [[West Plains, Missouri]] through the website stopcityfundedinternet.com.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/fidelity_astroturf_city_broadband/|title=Of course a mystery website attacking city-run broadband was run by an ISP. Of course|access-date=2018-02-07|language=en}}</ref><ref name=boing>{{Cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2018/02/08/it-wasnt-for-you-darned-kids.html|title=Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill Missouri municipal net / Boing Boing|website=boingboing.net|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-08}}</ref> |
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In January 2018, [[YouTube]] user Isaac Protiva uploaded a video revealing that Fidelity Communications was behind an initiative called "Stop City-Funded Internet," based on the fact that some images on the Stop City-Funded Internet website had "Fidelity" in their file names.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Isaac Protiva |date=January 31, 2018 |title=Proof that Fidelity Communications is behind the Stop City Funded Internet campaign |trans-title= |medium=Video |language=English|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDPOvFdUcE|access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref> The campaign appeared to be in response to the city of [[West Plains, Missouri|West Plains]] expanding their broadband network, and advocated for the end of [[municipal broadband]] on the basis that it was too risky.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stop City-Funded Internet |access-date=March 10, 2018|url=https://stopcityfundedinternet.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129214112/https://stopcityfundedinternet.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2018 }}</ref><ref name=kos>{{cite news|publisher=Daily Kos |title=It turns out the Missouri grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" movement was a cable monopoly |access-date=March 10, 2018 |first1=Walter |last1=Einenkel| url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/8/1739859/-It-turns-out-the-Missouri-grassroots-Stop-City-Funded-Internet-movement-was-a-cable-monopoly}}</ref> Days later, Fidelity released a letter admitting to sponsoring the campaign.<ref name=kos/><ref name=boing/> |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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* [http://www.fidelitycommunications.com/ Official website] |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180129214112/https://stopcityfundedinternet.com/ stopcityfundedinternet.com], an astroturf website paid for by Fidelity Communications |
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