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Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Ajit Pai said it was a “fact” that there was Russian interference in the public comments ahead of its controversial net neutrality vote last year, amid sparring between another commissioner about a lawsuit the agency is in the midst of.
The admittance was made in response to a lawsuit filed by the New York Times, who requested access to records surrounding the public comments that they argued would “shed light to the extent to which Russian nationals and agents of the Russian government have interfered with the agency notice-and-comment process about a topic of extensive public interest.”
The public comments left ahead of the FCC’s net neutrality vote have been at the center of much scrutiny—with millions of fraudulent comments (including the names of dead people and current members of Congress) being used.
One recent study recently found that of the real comments, nearly 100 percent were made in favor of the FCC keeping the existing net neutrality rules.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/net-neutrality-comments-lawsuit/
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Friday December 07 2018, @08:13PM
It is a simple cop-out. He was paid, and paid well by Verizon to throw neutrality out. he did. Doing so was illegal as hell, so he can't admit that. But there was clearly outside interference, so he will tack it on to the proven player in US politics- Russia. hell, he may have hired one of the russian propaganda shops himself, and thus have proof that it was 'them'.