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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @03:59PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @03:59PM (#904772)

    By the way, you know on your sig that the AOC 'liberal' you refer to was actually a LaRouche plant [washingtonpost.com] and we've known that for about five days now?

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:07PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:07PM (#904778) Journal

    Yes, thank you, but I'm enjoying the responses.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @07:05PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @07:05PM (#904848)

      Yes, thank you, but I'm enjoying the responses.

      You actually enjoy getting ass whacks for being a tool of some fringe larouche PAC?!? Wow. Well...whatever turns you on. You do you, I guess.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @08:39PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @08:39PM (#905379)

        Another exame of "winning" being preferred to responsible adult behavior. They are busy cheering on the downfall of democracy and fellating a liar. Too fucking weird, just hypocrites all the way down. Nice to your face (if they like you) and backstabbing cunts whenever their "sensibilities" are hurt.