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Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments

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Re: Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments

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post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is whether canned responses came from a "organic" groundswell of concerned citizen or a handful of astroturfers.

Which doesn't make much sense, because the arguments are used in the decision making process, not the number of comments. This wasn't some kind of vote where you could stuff the ballot box, this was somewhere that you could flag items of concern. We all know that anyone could fake an IP address, as well. It would take little thought to spam a bunch of nonsense through a random proxy via a script. But, just like every…

That’s because every media outlet was repeating the same Russian state bullshit. Not a single one of those #^,suckers will ever admit to

....swallows lump in throat *

Umm Trump was right, and they were complicit in proliferating fake news

Re: Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments

#82
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which doesn't make much sense, because the arguments are used in the decision making process, not the number of comments. This wasn't some kind of vote where you could stuff the ballot box, this was somewhere that you could flag items of concern. We all know that anyone could fake an IP address, as well. It would take little thought to spam a bunch of nonsense through a random proxy via a script. But, just like every…

That’s because every media outlet was repeating the same Russian state bullshit. Not a single one of those #^ ,suckers will ever admit to .... swallows lump in throat * Umm Trump was right, and they were complicit in proliferating fake news

No matter which side you believe, you can expect there to be Russian IP addresses on there. It was an open web form, anyone could leave a comment. Anyone could find a proxy if they were so inclined. I suspect lots of random foreigners would've commented and I don't think any of it mattered one bit, despite the constant protestations that foreigners making online comments about matters of international importance is something to fear for reasons that have never quite been made clear.

But apparently spamming a web form with pointless comments is really important to some people because it proves... something?

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