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Anti-net neutrality spammers are flooding FCC's pages with fake comments
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-b…
Top Dem wants FBI to investigate fake net neutrality comments
http://thehill.com/policy/techno…
The reason this matters is that according to U.S. law the FCC has to take public opinion into account before it can revoke a rule such as net neutrality protections. According to Trump's FCC, 65% of the comments they received are ANTI net neutrality.
Does that sound remotely realistic? I don't even know many conservatives who feel strongly about the issue -- all the energy and activism is on the pro-net neutrality side.
If companies with a vested interest in the decision are flooding the FCC with fake comments as the first article strongly suggests, that is corporate criminality at its most brazen, and shows how badly some people want to kill net neutrality.
- if Hillary and her co-horts were doing this the alt-right would be calling for her head.inteliboy
- ive been a supporter of net neutrality for a long time based on the fear of monopolistic control. But im starting to think my fears are the same ofdeathboy
- all the other free market fears. Im beginning to think a internet free from gov even at a cost might work as a control against tyrannydeathboy
- its hard to say an abdundant amount of info has been beneficial to ppl at all. So many with no desire for info being controlled and used by itdeathboy
- you can parallel it with college expansion and more people in college but less real qualified and experienced. An easily attainable abundance of info out ofdeathboy
- relevance can do more harm than good. except for the ones selling it.deathboy
- There's a misconception that it somehow amounts to government control...when in reality net neutrality is just saying ISPs can't block access to or slow downyuekit
- sites they don't like. Basically it's how the internet works now.yuekit
- "its hard to say an abdundant amount of info has been beneficial to ppl at all."inteliboy
- famine is low, mortality rate is low, we are in statistically living in a "peace time", we bounced back from a financial crisis relatively quickly...inteliboy
- the middle class and rich are growing, standard of living is growing etc etc. Fact is, for the most part, life is as good as it has ever been around the world.inteliboy
- yuekit it is gov control. if they set the rules they get the power. the lobbying dollars, and its a constricted market. i just dont know if it matters at thisdeathboy
- point. gov already chose the winners and level of services. inteliboy i think u are mistaken. we haven't bounced back from financial crisis at all. we havedeathboy
- expanded balance sheets using shared economy as a sort of nuclear deterrent. middleclass has shrunk, liberty has decreased, chaos and emo rise, debt highdeathboy
- but i still have no idea what internet directly does of any of those things. but think of info as a commodity. know the idea of a child came from school anddeathboy
- separation of information from "adults". Info can control cultures, i think our current culture cant define relevance or detect bullshit. how many ppl heredeathboy
- bought the russian bandwagon news reports? i think these big media companies who are shaping our politics should be charged a premium to operate as others asdeathboy
- ISPs decide. problem is gov limited ISPs... i think protecting net neutrality gave rise to and too much power to companies which should have been regulated bydeathboy
- market forces... i think i was wrong in support of net neutrality looking at it with fresh eyes and seeing how things have played out overtimedeathboy
- imagine if facebook was charged a premium, and they had to pass that cost on. would they be have the power they have now?deathboy
- would people be better off?deathboy
- To me government control sounds like the government would be running it or have a role in the day to day decision making process.yuekit
- This is just a rule the ISPs have to follow, no different from any other rule or regulation in any industry.yuekit
- It's basically an anti-monopolistic type of law since it says the ISPs can't block content they don't like or set up crony capitalist deals with big websites.yuekit
- they run it as much as in they set the rules. however gov built the isp monopolies so its tough to say if it can be salvageddeathboy
- ISPs are like data railroads. I think treating data in a market approach is better than our current methods. u can see how phone plans bettered outside our ruledeathboy
- in other countries. i think i supported something terrible now that I know moredeathboy