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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.
I never knew my grandpa was against net neutrality, I will now stop visiting his grave.
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.
not quite literally non-existent ... just so close to non-existent, that it has no bearing whatsoever on reality, other than a bunch of fearmongering, racist laws that in practicality do nothing other than suppress votes of minorities and marginalized groups.
i could live a little longer in this prison
Being dead is no barrier to voting!
"The problem with comments on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity. Also, I am against Net Neutrality."
~ Abraham Lincoln
Yea, I response of "We got your comment, thanks for your input. " from an automated bot...
Comments don't need to be addressed. The issues raised MIGHT be addressed, but this too is not required.
I seem to recall when BPL was being discussed, you know, where they where talking about letting broad spectrum RF be carried over power lines to get internet to remote places, the Ham radio community had all sorts of "issues" with this and posted all sorts of unique comments about the question for the FCC to review... It didn't matter one little bit, they voted to move forward with the testing and the very issues raised in those comments proved true. The FCC commissioners didn't care about the comments, even the ones which raised the proper technical objections, which sadly proved to be all too true.
So, I know what the rules are, but the reality is they don't matter in the end. Certainly the number of comments doesn't matter. The commissioners vote the way they are told to vote.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Agreed. Bill Clinton & Donald Trump are both pigs, but cheating on your life isn't illegal. Lying about cheating is a bigger deal than cheating; it opens you up to blackmail.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
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.
The problem is they're supposed to review the comments AFTER they're submitted, not before.
Who said FusionGPS paid the Russian government for info? Sure, Fusion was payed - but if you believe their testimony (and they're certainly a lot more believable than, say, Donald Trump Jr.), they did their research on the up and up - i.e. broke no laws, and did essentially what good OR people do.
Nobody paid Fusion as an intermediary to funnel money to Russia. Fusion started looking at Russian connections and kept finding stuff. And what they found was disturbing enough that they went to the FBI with it. Hardly what you do if you were hired to secretly break the law and 'funnel money to a foreign government'.
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...