AG says CNN, MSNBC companies funded fake net neutrality comments

[rayg]

Interesting!..

"New York AG reveals CNN, MSNBC parent companies funded millions of fake net neutrality comments

'Illegal schemes are unacceptable,' says AG Letitia James

The Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has revealed in a new report that nearly 18 million of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received during its 2017 rulemaking were fake, intended to support the repeal of net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should provide all online content equally and prevent them from favoring their own services or customers over their competitors.
A $4.2 million effort funded by Broadband for America, which includes major internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Charter, reportedly accounted for more than 8.5 million of the fake FCC comments. Millions more were submitted by a teenage college student in California.

"The Office of the New York Attorney General (OAG) found that fake comments accounted for nearly 18 million of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received during its 2017 rulemaking," the AG's report reads. "This type of fraud has significant consequences for our democracy. Federal and state agencies rely on public comments to set standards that govern many aspects of our lives, from public health to consumer protection to the environment, and, in this case, the rules that govern how we share and consume content over the internet. Public comments can also influence legislators and the laws they enact."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/comcast-att-fake-net-neutrality-comments

[Vern Humphrey]

Now let's see if they do anything about it.

[bruce]

Nothing will happen. Fifth column will never attack it's own. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

[dryheat]

Twitter doesn't allow that anymore. They have AI that prevents that. AI: Artificial Intelligence. People can't be trusted. MIB: people are panicky.. and you know it. -TLJ


The Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has revealed in a new report that nearly 18 million of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received during its 2017 rulemaking were fake, intended to support the repeal of net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should provide all online content equally and prevent them from favoring their own services or customers over their competitors.
-were fake? What does that mean? Well, we didn't like the comment... Computer generated comments; that's fake. Hell, I don't know how we keep track of all this. I think it was a pretty good post Ray. Not DM for once. Net Neutrality, look it up.
If you have the time:

Network neutrality, most commonly called net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not discriminate or charge differently based on user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication. With net neutrality, ISPs may not intentionally block, slow down, or charge money for specific online content. Without net neutrality, ISPs may prioritize certain types of traffic, meter others, or potentially block traffic from specific services, while charging consumers for various tiers of service. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems. Net neutrality regulations may be referred to as "common carrier" regulations. Net neutrality does not block all abilities that Internet service providers have to impact their customers' services. Opt-in/opt-out services exist on the end user side, and filtering can be done on a local basis, as in the filtration of sensitive material for minors. Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments will help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate. Combined with strong public opinion, this has led some governmean offer. Proponents of net neutrality, which include computer science experts, consumer advocates, human rights organizations, and Internet content providers, assert that net neutrality helps to provide freedom of information exchange, promotes competition and innovation for Internet services, and upholds standardization of Internet data transmission which was essential for its growth.
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Well, fake is fake. Remember the fake Bill Cosby editorial? The fake Colon Powell editorial(it's what I know)? Now that's whoppin fake. And that was the old days. I'm sure there's a plethora of fake that's better. Yikes.