(via /.) is this slick pr, anti/simulated-grassroots saavy, or just dishonest? you're a think tank. you get almsot all your funding form one company. you release reports that harshly criticize opponents of the company that funds you. this isn't a hypothetical question. "They have a word in Washington for the corporate-sponsored outcry, the grassroots movement that isn’t: AstroTurf. By far the most comical example of this is to be found at the Freedom to Innovate Network (Fin), a “non-partisan, grassroots network of citizens and businesses who have a stake in the success of Microsoft and the high-tech industry”. Fin doesn’t try particularly hard to appear independent—its website, after all, is housed on Microsoft’s own—but it has as its online centrepiece a lengthy collection of testimonials from activist groups with vaguely alarming names..."

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