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Gizmodo writes that FCC emails show that the agency spread lies to bolster false DDoS attack claims. Their system became overwhelmed in early 2017 after John Oliver directed his audience to flood the agency with comments supporting net neutrality. A similar surge had happened for similar reasons back in 2014. However, the current FCC team appears to have lied about both occasions.
Internal emails reviewed by Gizmodo lay bare the agency's efforts to counter rife speculation that senior officials manufactured a cyberattack, allegedly to explain away technical problems plaguing the FCC's comment system amid its high-profile collection of public comments on a controversial and since-passed proposal to overturn federal net neutrality rules.
The FCC has been unwilling or unable to produce any evidence an attack occurred—not to the reporters who've requested and even sued over it, and not to U.S. lawmakers who've demanded to see it. Instead, the agency conducted a quiet campaign to bolster its cyberattack story with the aid of friendly and easily duped reporters, chiefly by spreading word of an earlier cyberattack that its own security staff say never happened.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:27PM (3 children)
Yes, I think I do, but now I wonder if it was all smoke and mirrors, and now with much more communication (including the Internet, cell-phone video, etc.) the lies are being exposed. The real question is: who is going to do what? And when?
Someday when I have lots of free time I'll do some historical research and see if the Founding Fathers had this much difficulty with lying and corruption.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:29PM (2 children)
No, they're just lying a LOT more, and a lot more brazenly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @08:15PM (1 child)
The 1980s were a decade of lies. There wasnt much lying 1992-2000, then a lot of lying 2000-2008, then there was a hiatus until 2016 at which point the lying returned with a vengence.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 07 2018, @09:00PM
Hmmm....there's a correlation there. I wonder what it is!