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I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.
NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans' identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions. In this post, I will point out one particularly egregious spambot submission, make the case that there are likely many more pro-repeal spambots yet to be confirmed, and estimate the public position on net neutrality in the "organic" public submissions.
The author's key findings:
- One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
- There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
- It's highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments³ were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02 2017, @12:15PM (1 child)
That's the CLAIM, and it is a claim shared by proponents of government.
Considering that it's a safer bet to assume that the name of every government bill-and-would-be-law states the exact opposite as the consequence after its passage, you'll pardon me if I believe that you are the one who has no idea what the result will actually be from a bill toting "Internet Neutrality".
(Score: 5, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Saturday December 02 2017, @08:41PM
You are apparently at least semi-literate, so why don't you go ahead and actually read the law (in this case, the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended numerous times, as well as the regulations associated with Title II classification)?
I did. I believe that an informed citizenry is critical to the health of any free society. You appear to woefully uninformed. And making blanket statements about what the folks *you* elected may or may not do without any information or evidence makes you look like an idiot.
Or are you afraid that your fairyland hellhole version of reality will crumble if you learn some facts?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr