Rally at Comcast building opposes cable merger

About 50 activists held a lunchtime rally Sept 15 across the street from Comcast headquarters in Center City asking the government to tighten regulations on the Internet, and opposing the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

Free Press, an organization that opposes media consolidation, organized the rally in Philadelphia, as well as ones in New York City and Chicago. Protesters held a large puppet in the likeness of Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts and a globe with phone wires wrapped around it, representing the company's communications network.