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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @06:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @06:08AM (#904547)

    They used that time to pass healthcare.

    Yeah, a right-wing healthcare plan that kept the rapacious, price-gouging insurance companies in place and still allowed tens of thousands to die every year from preventable medical issues. And we still have worthless Democrats who are arguing against single-payer Medicare For All, even though every single other first world country has one form or another of a universal healthcare system, pays less, and has better outcomes for average people. Pathetic. And all because Obama gave up instantly when faced with opposition from some corporatist Democrats, because he was a corporatist himself.

    Let's not pretend that the Democratic party isn't plagued by corporate scum, because it is. The problem has to be identified and acknowledged before we can begin to solve it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:44PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:44PM (#904728) Journal

    Let's not pretend that the Democratic party isn't plagued by corporate scum, because it is. The problem has to be identified and acknowledged before we can begin to solve it.

    Yes, it is. Unfortunately, the dissent in the Democratic party against the corporatism has been channeled down the Identitarian rabbit hole and to genuflect before the Church of Woke. Progressivism (in the sense of the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party platform of 1912, a la Teddy Roosevelt) that produced such reasonable reforms like the 40-hr work week, banning child labor, Social Security, the FDA, and many other things that help the average person, was chucked right out the window.

    Consequently an urgently needed correction against concentrated wealth and power to restore democracy has been forestalled.

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    Washington DC delenda est.