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 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.
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How to defend net neutrality from Trump's FCC
Yet when
ZDNet and
The Verge 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.
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