Investigation Demanded Over Fake FCC Comments Submitted By Dead People (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Fight for the Future has found another issue with the fake comments submitted to the FCC opposing net neutrality. "The campaign group says that some of the comments were posted using the names and details of dead people," according to the BBC. The exact same comment was also submitted more than 7,000 times using addresses in Colorado, where a reporter discovered that contacting the people at those addresses drew reactions which included "I have never seen this before in my life" and "No, I did not post this comment. In fact, I disagree with this comment." Fight for the Future also knocked on doors in Tampa, Florida, where the few people who answered "were shocked to hear that their name and address were publicly listed alongside a political message they did not necessarily understand or agree with." An alleged commenter in Montana told a reporter she didn't even know what net neutrality was.

14 people have already signed Fight for the Future's official complaint to the FCC, which calls for notification of all people affected, an investigation, and the immediate removal of all fake comments from the public docket. "Based on numerous media reports, nearly half a million Americans may have been impacted by whoever impersonated us," states the letter, "in a dishonest and deceitful campaign to manufacture false support for your plan to repeal net neutrality protections."
Fight for the Future says they've already verified "dozens" of instance of real people discovering a fake comment was submitted in their name -- and that in addition, more than 2,400 people have already used their site to contact their state Attorneys General demanding an investigation. They note the FCC has taken no steps to remove the fake comments from its docket, "risking the safety and privacy of potentially hundreds of thousands of people," while a campaign director at Fight for the Future added, "For the FCC's process to have any legitimacy, they simply cannot move forward until an investigation has been conducted."

Comments

FCC Comments From Dead People - Fake Narative

[ZippyTheChicken]

Remember in the election there were a number of black churches that were burned and spray panted with TRUMP and it turned out it was members of the church that did it. Now those people are in jail but it goes to show what can happen. If you want a lot of attention what do you do.. you pump a lot of fake posts into that requests for responses and then it gets News Time. No one is going to be talking about this unless there is a Scandal Attached to it.. maybe that is unfortunate. However playing Dirty will eventually track back to someone with less than honest motives. It is not going to end up being Comcast or Verizon executives that did this. Everyone with a brain knows that.

Correction: Democrat Trolls

[SuperKendall]

We all know the Democrats are fond of making up everything else, so faking support for NN is right up their alley.

Does the sound like a Trump supporter to you:

"Hey, Indian cocksucker, you don't belong here. Leave the country now. Do not fuck with my Internet connectivity. You're a real jagoff.
I support strong net neutrality backed by Title 2 oversight of ISPs."

That is a post IN SUPPORT of NN. That is the kind of people you have chosen to stand with, real bigots as opposed to imagined ones.