Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments
Friendly reminder that there were massive bot compaigns on both sides of the issue. <a href="https://archive.fo/sp9Q7" rel="nofollow">https://archive.fo/sp9Q7</a> this WSJ article found thousands of people that said they never posted the comments attributed to them.<p>>One 369-word comment supporting the Obama-era net-neutrality rules was posted on the FCC website more than 300,000 times. One of those was attributed to Gloria Burney, 87, a retired speech therapist in Los Angeles. She isn’t in favor of repealing those rules, she said, “but I never wrote that.”
A comment from “Elzor The Blarghmaster” at 9632 Elm Road, Maywood, Ill., was among the 818,000 identical FCC comments backing the Trump policy. No such address could be found, said Jimmie Thompson, a U.S. Postal Service carrier in Maywood.<p>If you've got the impression that the bot compaigns were only from one side, you've just been misled by biased media like OP, which links to prior coverage of one company and doesn't bother to tell you about the broader picture.