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99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality

posted by chromas on Wednesday October 17 2018, @07:47PM   

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for BoyceMagooglyMonkey

After removing all duplicate and fake comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission last year, a Stanford researcher has found that 99.7 percent^[pdf] of public comments—about 800,000 in all—were pro-net neutrality.

"With the fog of fraud and spam lifted from the comment corpus, lawmakers and their staff, journalists, interested citizens and policymakers can use these reports to better understand what Americans actually said about the repeal of net neutrality protections and why 800,000 Americans went further than just signing a petition for a redress of grievances by actually putting their concerns in their own words," Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford University, wrote in a blog post Monday.

Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kmedj/997-percent-of-unique-fcc-comments-favored-net-neutrality

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Original Submission

• Failing to "agree" => potential felony (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @12:19AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @12:19AM (#750235)

  Felony => You cannot vote.

  Women don't suffer this warped logic.

  It's preposterous that HALF of the goddamn population doesn't face this terror, and yet has the same vote on whether we go to war, or whether we spend more on welfare, etc.

  Democracy is a STUPID idea.

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