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Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments
jfruh writes Conservative groups opposed to net neutrality have a beef with the FCC, claiming the commission helped pro-net neutrality advocates file comments on the subject without similarly helping opponents. In other news out of this camp, it turns out American Commitment, an advocacy group with ties to the Republican billionaire Koch brothers, sent out 2.4 million letters to Congress opposing net neutrality but only collected about 814,000 signatures. The group then generated three letters to Congress for each person signing the petition, one letter to each of the signer's two senators and one to each signer's representative.
It isn't a return rate, it's cause and effect. They got 814,000 people to sign up to have them send 3 messages for each person, one to each congressman representing them.
That's kind of what you do. Why would you send a letter or email to only one of your two senators?
Every online form I've ever seen lets you write to your two senators, your house rep, and frequently also the white house or other applicable office. They take your input on the online form and either print and mailvit or aggregate it and send the comments and signatures to the people's congressional representatives.
That was my thought. I don't even understand why the Koch brothers care. They don't have a dog in this fight. Why on earth go to the trouble of opposing net neutrality?
They don't, they don't, and they are not. If you read the article carefully, you'll see they're just shouting "KOCH BROTHERS" as a rallying cry to left-leaning constituencies. The "ties" to Koch that they refer to is simply that the the founder of "American Commitment" once (5 years ago) worked for Americans for Prosperity, which is chaired by David Koch. There doesn't seem to be any funding for American Commitment from Koch or AFP.
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