Microsoft Settlement Comments

GreyPoopon writes: "I'm sure somebody has already sent this in, but what the heck. According to Excite, it looks like a summary of the comments on the Microsoft settlement only show 5 of the 47 released by the Justice Department in support of the settlement. Does this mean that Judge Kollar-Kotelly will rely on only these 47 to make her decision?" The comments that the DOJ describes as "major" are now published; the procedure the DOJ wants to follow for publishing all of the 30,000 comments received is contained in a court filing. (The Federal Register, if you don't know, is a dead-tree, daily publication of the doings of the U.S. Federal Government. The Department of Justice is arguing that there are simply too many comments to publish on paper, despite the legal requirement to do so.)

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Re:Slashdot for Government!

[GreyPoopon]

In real life, right-wing conservatives already have this type of influence down cold.

Spoken like a true far-left liberal. Sorry dude, but BOTH groups have this practice down real well. You just tend to notice the group you disagree with the most. I suspect it's pretty easy to identify the people in both groups, though. Just look at those most adamantly opposed (on both sides) to campaign finance reform. Then extract those who backed up their opposition with reference to something specific about the bill that appears to have merit. What's left are probably your extremists.