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It’s no secret that bots flooded the FCC with comments supporting its plans to kill net neutrality. But just how many comments were fraudulent? All too many, according to data scientist Jeff Kao. He recently conducted a study that used natural language processing to conclude that “at least” 1.3 million of the anti-net neutrality comments […]
It’s highly unlikely that the FCC’s latest plan to gut net neutrality won’t go through, thanks to chairman Ajit Pai’s record of consumer-unfriendly viewpoints and a Republican majority on the Federal Communications Commission. Still, advocacy groups and various websites have been pushing to preserve net neutrality for months now. The latest protest is looking to […]
Enlarge / Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai arrives for his confirmation hearing with the Senate Commerce Committee on July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla ) The US Senate today gave Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai another term on the FCC. Pai would have had to leave the […]
Enlarge / Democrats vs. Republicans. (credit: Getty Images | Linda Braucht) The Federal Communications Commission proposal to repeal net neutrality rules ignores the public interest by favoring Internet service providers over other businesses and individuals, Democratic lawmakers told the FCC today. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to undo the rules “impermissibly ignores the Commission’s core […]
Enlarge / Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.). (credit: Getty Images | Bill Clark) This week, the head of the Federal Communications Commission and a Republican US senator each called net neutrality a “slogan” that solves no real problems, with the senator also arguing that the Internet should have paid fast lanes. “It’s a great slogan,” FCC […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Palto) Fourteen people who say their names and addresses were attached to anti-net neutrality comments without their permission have asked the Federal Communications Commission to notify other victims of the impersonation and remove fraudulent comments from the net neutrality docket. As we’ve previously reported, there have been hundreds of thousands of identical comments that […]
Enlarge / Actual people who support net neutrality, rallying in front of the White House in November 2014. (credit: Stephen Melkisethian) The FCC this week has received hundreds of thousands of new comments on its proposal to dismantle net neutrality rules, and more than 128,000 of them are identical comments calling for the reversal of the […]
