2 Million Net Neutrality Public Comments Faked
It seems there is foul play afoot in the Net Neutrality battle.
The FCC opened the repeal of Net Neutrality to public comment earlier this year. But it seems out of 23 million comments submitted, at least 2 million of them were faked. Some used the names and addresses of dead people. Some of live people, but changed their addresses. Some of the names were linked to computer data breaches and stolen identities, although the exact breaches were unclear.
New York's State Attorney General's office has set up a web page where you can search for your name (or loved one's names--living or deceased) and see if there are comments associated with them. If there is evidence of fraud, you can contact that office if you wish:
NY Attorney General Fake Name and Comment Search
It is not clear to me whether that search includes all comments and names submitted to the FCC, or only those with New York addresses.
The final vote on the repeal of Net Neutrality is being held tomorrow, over the objections of 19 state attorneys general.
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I found a fake anti-neutrality comment submitted using my name and address.
Make that two million and one.
For the record, my ISP is Verizon.
"Please clap." -- Jeb Bush
This will be bad for the big Telecoms
They will be hated and run out of business.
Beware the bullshit factories.
They might be hated, as many already indeed
are, but they won't go out of business. They own the pipe and to use that pipe you WILL pay them what they demand for use of it, period. They're slathering at the bit waiting for this to happen and really, they don't give a shit what the public thinks of them.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Kudos.
Nowhere in your post did I find Russians hiding under my bed. Hell, I even moved the dust bunnies to see.
Well done.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I read about this on ToP
There are Russians hiding under their beds everywhere there. They are blaming Russian bots for the false comments on the FCC website. Putin doesn't want us to have good internet connections for some reason. How sad it is to be so delusional about this Russian propaganda crap that they blame everything they don't like on Russia.
Someone said that Obama was the one who appointed Pai and whoboy did they get hammered for it.
"You are one of those who always have to blame Obama for....." and it went downhill from there.
I don't understand why people there can't accept any criticism of him.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
He was.
The first black president. Mattered not.
He was change. He lied.
He was a figurehead in a nation of Hope. Nope.
He was just another useful fool for capitalism and democracy.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
What he is is an amoral opportunist who is now out-grifting
the Clintons.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Apparently this is going to end up in the courts
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With this in mind, is there a chance that rolling back net neutrality by a 3-2 vote goes against the legislation that congress put in place?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Leahy is on that list.
Though, after @Amanda's essay the other day, linking him to a half-million telecom
bribedonation, I wonder ...Source