Astroturf essentially means "fake grassroots." You create an organization and try to make it look legitimate -- i.e. give it a fancy name and mission statement -- but the reality is that it's a wholly paid for entity designed to do something else. In this case, the "something else" is lobby for the interests of telcos, presumably.
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Astroturf essentially means "fake grassroots." You create an organization and try to make it look legitimate -- i.e. give it a fancy name and mission statement -- but the reality is that it's a wholly paid for entity designed to do something else. In this case, the "something else" is lobby for the interests of telcos, presumably.