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More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked (hackernoon.com)
Jeff Kao from Hacker Noon used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017 and found that at least 1.3 million pro-repeal net neutrality comments were faked. From the report: NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans' identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions. In this post, I will point out one particularly egregious spambot submission, make the case that there are likely many more pro-repeal spambots yet to be confirmed, and estimate the public position on net neutrality in the "organic" public submissions. [The key findings include:]
1. One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
2. There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
3. It's highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
1. One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
2. There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
3. It's highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
Pick 100 names from the tens of thousands of people who supposedly posted "The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation..." and look up their phone numbers.
Call them and ask if they posted that comment.
When they all ask what the hell you're talking about, there's your evidence.
for it to be investigated by nobody ever because this entire thing is crooked AF and that asshole behind it is a Verizon shill. He should be removed from office and charged with bribery and treason.
Learn to read, Trumpies.
One of the main reasons I can never forgive Trump or those who supported him, is not just how much he lies, but he actively tries to discredit and destroy legitimate sources of information so that you have no choice but to trust his people. This is the kind of crap that helped him win, just applied to another topic. It will likely be used ever more frequently in the future. Seriously, at this point is their anyone who hasn't had their personal information stolen? I've got two or three of the reports in the past few years, and I'm pretty careful, and none of them were through a mistake on my part.
Years ago, I never could have predicted that truth might become the battle of our time. Sure there will be some that will see through all the BS, but will there be enough?
Either way, if you start to see the internet divided into packages, it might be time to begin to panic, since you can bet most of the major sources of information will end up controlled by only a handful of rather powerful companies like Sinclair does now to local stations.
Just think, maybe in 10-20 years we will have to VPN to a foreign nation for accurate news, well assuming they haven't already blocked VPNs. I vaguely recall that Russia and China already had a somewhat successful program there. No doubt some terrorist will abuse the gun laws to buy infinite firearms, ammunition, and maybe even manage to get lots of bomb making materials, and then somewhere along the way will use a VPN once and then they will have an excuse to ban them.