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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @11:59PM (1 child)
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
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?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford