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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:59PM (#904409)

    It's called Astroturfing and it's nothing new. Big business has been doing this forever and everyone is already aware of it.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:45AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:45AM (#904441) Journal

    and everyone is already aware of it.

    Yet, "everybody" seem to be surprise that it works each time every time, in spite of "everybody" being aware of it.
    Like "Darn, fooled me for a thousands time. D'ya care to try again?"

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