Hands Off the Internet

Hands Off the Internet is an Astroturf group set up by telecom interests led by AT&T. Its purports to be "a nationwide coalition of Internet users" who oppose network neutrality ^[1].

Principals

• Mike McCurry
• Christopher Wolf

Member Organizations

• Alcatel
• The America Channel
• American Conservative Union
• AT&T
• Center for Individual Freedom
• Cinergy Communications
• Citizens Against Government Waste
• Cingular
• CBM of America
• DiamondWare
• Electrodata, Inc.
• FiberControl
• Frontiers of Freedom
• Independent Technologies, Inc.
• Ministerial Alliance Against the Digital Divide
• MRV Communications, Inc.
• National Black Chamber of Commerce
• National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• Prysmian Communications

Note that several of the organizations in the list are themselves Astroturf organizations.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Hands Off The Internet Website[http://www.handsofftheinternet.com/hoti_docs/aboutus/cochairmen.shtml Co-Chairman
2. ^ Hands Off The Internet websiteOur Members