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FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate (engadget.com)
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has admitted that around 500,000 comments submitted during the net neutrality public comment period were linked to Russia email addresses. "Pai noted in a court filing that most of the comments were in favor of net neutrality, which the FCC repealed last December," reports Engadget. From the report:
The New York Times and BuzzFeed News have filed freedom of information requests in the hopes of uncovering the extent of fraudulent comments and Russian influence in the net neutrality process. Pai's filing was part of an FCC memorandum that addressed the requests, and the agency has argued that releasing the data could expose the U.S. to cyberattacks.
Pai's concession underscores how Russia's influence on U.S. democracy extends beyond headline-grabbing election interference and fake news peddling, and it also reflects the litany of issues the FCC faced during the net neutrality comment period. Over half of the almost 22 million comments came from phony, temporary or duplicate email addresses, according to a study, and reportedly only 17.4 percent of the comments were unique.
Pai's concession underscores how Russia's influence on U.S. democracy extends beyond headline-grabbing election interference and fake news peddling, and it also reflects the litany of issues the FCC faced during the net neutrality comment period. Over half of the almost 22 million comments came from phony, temporary or duplicate email addresses, according to a study, and reportedly only 17.4 percent of the comments were unique.
Net Neutrality dies in 10 days. If you want it back you'll have to vote the bums out. And that means _all_ of them. You'll need to give a super majority of NN supporters the House, Senate and then a NN supporter the presidency. Otherwise whichever chamber they hold onto (Senate probably) will just keep blocking it and eventually you'll forget about it and move on with your lives; one more freedom shot down, one more victory lost.
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"Most of you here on Slashdot are supporting a side Russia is strongly supporting. Doesn't that tell you anything about how wrong it is to support Net Neutrality as the FCC had it?"
Huh? Why? Are you unable to think for yourself, so you just have a knee-jerk reaction that anything the Russians might be for, for any reason, you're against?
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Because he's a hyper-partisan piece of shit that doesn't want to govern... he just wants power.
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Its great for think tanks, political NGO and the deep state news to play up all sides of Russian fiction.
Consider the pro NN rule side with extra big government rules.
Russia support NN rules so big federal gov monopoly can keep control over US. US POTS network stay under federal NN rule for generations.
NN keeps the network slow for everyone equally and the NN approved cell phone voice quality stay extra robotic.
One approved politically connected telco company supports their federally approved NN network. No community broadband competition ever.
Think about the removing of complex federal NN rules.
Russian support removing complex NN rules so only wealthy parts of US get good new broadband. Further divided USA as only wealthy can pay to get new telco investment as NN rules are removed.
With protective NN removed poor areas miss out on education and computer related skills.
Wealthy gated communities offer new non NN networks that grant access to the amazing new educational software.
Russian created deep educational gap in USA by inducing removing of protective federal NN rules.
The very best US think tank talking point would be that:
Russian artists make top quality memes that support both NN and no NN at same time so USA sink quicker further in domestic partisan political debate.
"Russia" anything is publication magic for US think tanks and political NGO's.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The Russians don't back Trump, and never did. All they're trying to is stir up hate and discontent, which is exactly what you're helping to do.
Comrade.