While there were fake comments submitted on behalf of both sides of the debate, the vast majority, Kao says, were anti-net neutrality. However, the problem was bigger than he initially knew.
Techdirt's Comments To The FCC On Net Neutrality And Preserving An Open Internet from the speak-up dept by Mike Masnick While the FCC has thankfully extended its deadline for filing comments on the net neutrality issue through Friday after its site melted down (again), I also wanted to share with you exactly what it is that we're submitting to the FCC. FCC loses legal battle to hide IP addresses of net neutrality comments By Paul Lilly 05 May 2020 The records could reveal if the FCC leaned on fraudulent comments to push through its repeal of net When the FCC first moved to pass the strict net neutrality rules in 2014, it received more than 4 million public comments, a record for the agency for any one proceeding. The FCC’s public comment process around net neutrality was mired in controversy in 2017, with lawmakers and companies on both sides of the issue arguing that a deluge of fake comments undermined
Apr 27, 2017 · The FCC has made its initial proposal as to how it intends to do away with net neutrality — and despite what leadership there has said, that's definitely how the proposed rules read. You are
May 03, 2020 · The FCC might not have much choice but to hand over data logs for fake net neutrality comments.A federal judge has ordered (via Gizmodo) the regulator to turn over server records to New York Times May 05, 2020 · We've long discussed how the Pai FCC's net neutrality repeal was plagued with millions of fraudulent comments, many of which were submitted by a bot pulling names from a hacked database of some kind.
Nov 29, 2017 · In FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s race to rollback Obama-era net neutrality regulations, it was revealed Wednesday that more than half of the 21.7 million public comments supporting the rule change
May 05, 2020 · We've long discussed how the Pai FCC's net neutrality repeal was plagued with millions of fraudulent comments, many of which were submitted by a bot pulling names from a hacked database of some kind. Sep 16, 2014 · FCC received a total of 3.7 million comments on net neutrality New, 16 comments By Jacob Kastrenakes @jake_k Sep 16, 2014, 6:06pm EDT It’s very, very rare for the notice and comment process to attract millions of responses—much less 22 million comments, as the effort to undo the net neutrality rules did in 2017. Apr 27, 2020 · Senators urge FCC to allow first responders more time to weigh in on net neutrality The senators asked the FCC to reconsider its decision not to grant an extension for public comments. The comments don’t matter. Removing net neutrality wasn’t based upon a popular vote and 99% of comments were tossed aside because they did nothing more than state their support for one side. The public comments are supposed to be for people to make actual legal arguments concerning the text of the actual regulation.