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05-11-2017, 06:02 AM
Mysterious bots flood the FCC with fake anti-net neutrality comments
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Some mysterious bots seem to have taken a keen interest in telecommunications policy.
Automated programs are thought to be responsible for more than 100,000 identical comments (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-108&q=The%20unprecedented%20regulatory%20power%20the%2 0Obama%20Administration%20imposed&sort=date_disseminated,DESC) recently posted to the Federal Communications Commission's website.
The messages, each posted under a different name, urge the agency to roll back the Obama Administration's rules for protecting net neutrality.
SEE ALSO: How to defend net neutrality from Trump's FCC (http://mashable.com/2017/05/08/dearfcc-net-neutrality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Yet when ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-website-with-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments/) and The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities) contacted more than two dozen of the supposed concerned citizens, **ne of them were aware of the opinions expressed in their name. One didn't even k**w what net neutrality was. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/10/bots-net-neutrality-comments-fcc/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Some mysterious bots seem to have taken a keen interest in telecommunications policy.
Automated programs are thought to be responsible for more than 100,000 identical comments (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-108&q=The%20unprecedented%20regulatory%20power%20the%2 0Obama%20Administration%20imposed&sort=date_disseminated,DESC) recently posted to the Federal Communications Commission's website.
The messages, each posted under a different name, urge the agency to roll back the Obama Administration's rules for protecting net neutrality.
SEE ALSO: How to defend net neutrality from Trump's FCC (http://mashable.com/2017/05/08/dearfcc-net-neutrality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Yet when ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-website-with-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments/) and The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities) contacted more than two dozen of the supposed concerned citizens, **ne of them were aware of the opinions expressed in their name. One didn't even k**w what net neutrality was. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/10/bots-net-neutrality-comments-fcc/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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