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The New Way to Hack Democracy - Millions of Fake Comments Sent to the FCC

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the voice-of-the-people^W-bots dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A consultant working for the US broadband industry's lobbying group "Broadband for America" sent over 1 million comments to the FCC opposing net neutrality.

Many of the names and email addresses in these comments are tied to a single data breach. Here's how Buzzfeed figured out what happened.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:56PM (#904406)

    Between the Adobe and Venezuela story, and the Blizzard and Hong Kong story, it's pretty clear the only remaining distinction between the US and China is one of procedure.

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:50AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:50AM (#904443) Journal

    it's pretty clear the only remaining distinction between the US and China is one of procedure.

    Except there's another**: only America is exceptional! Amurika, fuck yeah! Shoulda be proud of it, boy!

    ** no, not really. I'm just pointing one of the causes most usians are blind to the lack of substantive distinction between the two

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:45AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:45AM (#904645) Journal

    it's pretty clear the only remaining distinction between the US and China is one of procedure

    Which let us note is also the only real difference between say Switzerland and the USSR under Stalin. You can hide a hell of a lot of problems under "procedure".