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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02 2017, @06:30PM (2 children)
We think the proper role of government is to interfere with ISPs interfering with the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @03:18AM (1 child)
Granted the implication that most ISPs are government-enforced monopolies, which MUST end immediately, and that delegation of authority to investigate and punish fraud is valid since an individual person does have the authority to defend against fraud..
That being said, please explain how the federal government obtained the delegated power you claim it has, which is to impose conditions on how private entities conduct business among (apparently) willing customers. Your starting frame of reference should include the beginning of said government, which was at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @03:45PM
My ISP is headquartered in Illinois. I live in Wisconsin. That makes our business interstate commerce which is regulated under Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3 of the US Constitution which was drafted at said Philadelphia Convention in 1787.
It's a good thing said Constitution was amended to outlaw slavery because otherwise you'd be owned.