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Siro said:
I sympathize with the "it's not the end of the world" part of your argument. But I'm not a fan of the "children dying in Africa" part.
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Well yeah, that's the dumb part. Just like how Cy is essentially blaming me for net neutrality ending. It was supposed to be equally as dumb as Cy is being.
 
New York State is getting their **** together

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s/?tid=pm_business_pop&utm_term=.2e2056707995

A large number of messages lambasting the Obama-era regulation began appearing on the FCC's public forum with the same text. While it is not unusual for commenters to use form letters provided by activist groups, people began complaining they hadn't submitted the comments that carried their names and identifying information.

They were being impersonated.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman started to investigate after noticing many of these comments involved people in New York. There was an unexpected roadblock along the way: the FCC declined to cooperate with his office’s investigation, he said, rebuffing requests for logs and other records associated with the comments.

The disclosure the FCC had denied Schneiderman’s request was made in an open letter he wrote to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai this week.

Schneiderman wrote that the FCC's public comment process for the regulation change, which is required by law, “has been corrupted by the fraudulent use of Americans’ identities.”

“Such conduct likely violates state law — yet the FCC has refused multiple requests for crucial evidence in its sole possession that is vital to permit that law enforcement investigation to proceed,” he wrote. “In doing so, the perpetrator or perpetrators attacked what is supposed to be an open public process by attempting to drown out and negate the views of the real people, businesses, and others who honestly commented on this important issue.”

The letter has brought renewed scrutiny to what Schneiderman, as well as other researchers, believe may be hundreds of thousands of fake comments supporting the FCC’s proposed rule change. The accusations have raised questions about the integrity of another public forum, this one run by the federal government, in a moment of growing national concern for the ways in which social media can be exploited for political purposes.
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So.. yeah. Let's talk Fake news, and Fake accounts again.

As if this wasn't enough, there's reports that under the new plan, the FCC would block states from enacting their own neutrality laws.

Just do something.
 
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