FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments (variety.com)

"FCC general counsel Tom Johnson has told the New York State attorney general that the FCC is not providing information for his investigation into fake net-neutrality comments, saying those comments did not affect the review, and challenging the state's ability to investigate the feds." Variety has more: The FCC's general counsel, in a letter to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, also dismissed his concerns that the volume of fake comments or those made with stolen identities have "corrupted" the rule-making process... He added that Schneiderman's request for logs of IP addresses would be "unduly burdensome" to the commission, and would "raise significant personal privacy concerns."

Amy Spitalnick, Schneiderman's press secretary, said in a statement that the FCC "made clear that it will continue to obstruct a law enforcement investigation. It's easy for the FCC to claim that there's no problem with the process, when they're hiding the very information that would allow us to determine if there was a problem. To be clear, impersonation is a violation of New York law," she said... "The only privacy jeopardized by the FCC's continued obstruction of this investigation is that of the perpetrators who impersonated real Americans."
One of the FCC's Democratic commissioners claimed that this response "shows the FCC's sheer contempt for public input and unreasonable failure to support integrity in its process... Moreover, the FCC refuses to look into how nearly half a million comments came from Russian sources."

Comments

Fuck Communists

[mi]

nationalize common infrastructure

I hate Verizon with passion, but if you, Commie assholes, get within reach of nationalizing any more infrastructure, I will be defending their cables from your grabby Statist hands with everything I've got.

I didn't flee one Communism-destroyed country to witness another destroyed by the same demagogues and fools. Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea — you have your "worker's paradises" to move to. Stop destroying what's left of America.

Re:Fuck Communists

[mi]

And Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Canada...

Not sure, why you listed these, but all all of them (with the possible exception of Norway, which has vast oil deposits) are barely at the America's wealth — despite not maintaining a military worth a damn.

you have a poor grasp on what communism really is

Collective ownership of the means of production — that's what it means. And every time you nationalize something — as the asshole above proposed — you get closer and closer towards that.

I'm glad America's worked out for you, but it doesn't work out for everyone.

It remains the magnet — and the lifetime dream — for millions of people. Millions, who come here (legally and otherwise) and manage to not only prosper, but also support extended families back whence they came from — remittances from the US are a major portion of the GDP in some countries.

Seriously? You are going to bleat, how US "does not work for everyone"? Venezuela beckons for you...

America is not a democracy

[rsilvergun]

You would think the last election, where the winner lost by 3 million votes, would have made that abundantly clear. That loss wasn't an accident or a side effect of the electoral college. It was by design. That college has always been a buffer between the people and policy to keep them from getting too uppity and losing respect for their betters in the aristocracy. It's got nothing to do with being fair to Montana et al.