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Net Neutrality Comment Fraud Will Be Investigated By Government (arstechnica.com)
Last month, a number of US Representatives sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking it to investigate fraudulent comments submitted to the FCC's proposal to repeal net neutrality. Multiple groups found evidence that millions of the comments submitted during the FCC's public comment period were linked to fake email addresses, were fraudulently posted under others' names and addresses and were even attributed to people known to be dead. ArsTechnica reported on Wednesday that the GAO has agreed to investigate the issue. From the report: The GAO will do just that, having told Democrats in a letter that it will "review the extent and pervasiveness of fraud and the misuse of American identities during federal rulemaking processes." The investigation was requested by nine Democrats led by Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ). GAO investigations do not happen quickly. "At the current time we anticipate that staff with the required skills will be available to initiate an engagement in about five months," the office said.
>> linked to fake...addresses, were...under others' names and addresses and were even attributed to people known to be dead
Wow, sounds horrible - almost as bad as typical vote fraud!
deez nuts
I never knew my grandpa was against net neutrality, I will now stop visiting his grave.
#Make spambotting great again
Wow talk about calling the kettle black. The US government wants to look at the FCC for fraudulent claims. Doesn't matter which side of the fence you stand on, you have to admit it's funny.
The FCC commissioners actually reviewed these comments... Or what's the issue? It's not like they counted "yes" and 'no" votes from the comments.
I can tell you that the FCC commissioners are not prone to paying any attention to public comments. They MAY use them to justify their perspective, in the case they actually do, but no commissioner will care if they don't. Nobody is out counting comments to determine what way to vote. They have pollsters and their political appointers to determine how they vote, the comments are meaningless for this.
So it doesn't matter where the public comments came from, not one bit.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Being dead is no barrier to voting!
as the saying goes "Who watches the watchers" while nonpartisan the GSO only makes a report - and I think we all know what is going on here and it is exactly what congress (or their benefactors) want. I am doubtful anything will come of this - still a shame that the process can be hijacked and then dismissed so easily.
Close, but you still fell for the lie.
The FCC commissioner is required to respond to each unique issue raised in the comments. However many fake comments is absolutely irrelevant, because they are identical and therefore only get one response.
My bet is this is a false flag operation by some snarky slashtard, ignorantly designed with the intent of trying to break the process, and failing catastrophically.
"The problem with comments on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity. Also, I am against Net Neutrality."
~ Abraham Lincoln
I think Pai and the FCC already said that the public input had no consideration in regards to the decision.
"Pai’s agency has simultaneously argued that the fake comments make it less important to respond to public opinion on the issue"
http://fortune.com/2017/12/09/fcc-head-ajit-pai-verizons-puppet-net-neutrality/
Oops, Russia did it again.
No doubt they will find huge numbers of fake comments posted by paid Clinton-Soros agents. I know during the whole process slashdot was full of people posting links to different websites making it easy to post fake "comments" in support of big goverment intervention against the free market.
treason maybe.
I once (ONCE) saw childporn and reported it. The pokice then tried to go after me for:
1.obstruction of the kae, because I informed the oress after not even an auto reply and the site still up.
2. Spreading of childporn because I replied to a Usenet post and forgot to mangle the adress in a group speciffically to fight abuse.
3. Fraud, because I used a fake address and name for a throw away account.
They even went as far as calling my employer that they wanted to talk to me about a pedophile network. Luckily my COO was smart enough to talk to be. Quote from him "Fuck, not again." CEO offered to pay any legal fees. So that was nice. But I wikk be in the records somewhere linked as a suspect in a pedophilia case.
I have never ever seen anything illegal ever.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Only the people who don't understand the Internet want Net Neutrality.
Us technical people with even a modicum of understanding will reject it.
I received speed bumps and price decreases every year from my Internet provider in the US all the way until NN was implemented. And they are the only option in my town. They were doing right by the customer.
Attorney Marc E. Elias working for law firm Perkins Coie, funneled money from Clinton's campaign to FusionGPS, which ended up eventually paying Russia.
Using campaign money to pay foreign government, like Russia and Ukraine, for opposition research is illegal.
Using a law firm as an intermediary shows intent to hide it.
They then refused to answer questions about it until Congress subpoenaed everything from FusionGPS and they gave up that information saying Congress didn't needed to see everything else.
FEC textbook examples of violations, no one charged to date.
But I'm sure they will do something with the FCC.
I have about as much confidence in the result as I do when cops investigate themselves for maleficence.
GAO tracks the fraudulent comments back to a company, they get the FTC fine the shit out of them.
Do you really think that all the data will still be there when they come to audit it ? They'll be sure to have an upgrade and lost their backups before then.
You live and learn, or you don't learn much.
I'm sure this will all be put to rest post-haste.
First you want the government to control the internet, and now you want it to control people from fraudulently influencing it, next you'll imagine that the government should be able to control itself? Simple truth, the larger the government gets the more it will do things YOU(All of us) disagree with. The only way to be truly free is make the government small enough that it doesn't have enough power to take our freedom away. Net neutrality is just another way for the government to control the internet. Keep the government out of my wifi, at least when I deal with some corrupt business in some corrupt state I can move somewhere to get away.
Your government is ridiculous and an embarrassment for all its voters.