Current Events > more than a million pro-repeal of net neutrality comments were faked

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Darkman124
11/27/17 5:38:50 PM
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https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6

Summary:


One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
Its highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality.


Whoever is behind this should go to jail. Whoever is shielding them should go to jail.
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Phantom_Nook
11/27/17 5:40:08 PM
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Blatant corruption is fun!
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Kaname_Madoka
11/27/17 5:40:23 PM
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I wonder if any of these are those 3 karma alts that shill for removing net neutrality
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pinky0926
11/27/17 5:40:51 PM
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Strange that the FCC is not motivated to investigate this

Did I say strange? Sorry wrong word
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treewojima
11/27/17 5:41:38 PM
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It's okay, they're just voting with their wallet
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Tropicalwood
11/27/17 5:43:09 PM
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I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj12LaDvwKA

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pinky0926
11/27/17 5:47:31 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj12LaDvwKA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbWqXKN3m3c

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Gamer99z
11/27/17 5:48:03 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj12LaDvwKA

Lmao
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Balrog0
11/27/17 5:48:13 PM
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Asherlee10 posted...
Darkman124 posted...

Whoever is behind this should go to jail. Whoever is shielding them should go to jail.


I would bet the farm that it was hired out by several firms (probably overseas) and they paid some Indians, maybe Filipinos, to write comments all day long with a general script in mind.

The funding probably came from groups that fund lobbyists.

I don't know about this exact scenario, but injecting political opinions to social media in mass like described above is not technically illegal. I, unfortunately, know more about it than I would like.


it says their identities were stolen for use for public comments -- that is the only place where it is likely to be illegal, though I do not know the specifics of what penalties there are for such a thing
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Darkman124
11/27/17 5:48:19 PM
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Asherlee10 posted...
Darkman124 posted...

Whoever is behind this should go to jail. Whoever is shielding them should go to jail.


I would bet the farm that it was hired out by several firms (probably overseas) and they paid some Indians, maybe Filipinos, to write comments all day long with a general script in mind.

The funding probably came from groups that fund lobbyists.

I don't know about this exact scenario, but injecting political opinions to social media in mass like described above is not technically illegal. I, unfortunately, know more about it than I would like.


in this case, it is illegal, because it is not social media but the FCC's official comment site, on which one must use a real american citizen's identity to post.

the crime in question is identity theft.
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darkphoenix181
11/27/17 5:48:22 PM
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Asherlee10 posted...
I, unfortunately, know more about it than I would like.


:O

say it isn't so
say you didn't get a job as a paid shill
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Balrog0
11/27/17 5:49:30 PM
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Darkman124 posted...
in this case, it is illegal, because it is not social media but the FCC's official comment site, on which one must use a real american citizen's identity to post.

the crime in question is identity theft.


right -- to be clear, if they had asked people to submit form letter style comments, that would be totally fine as long as the people whose names are being used... you know, are agreeing to it
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southcoast09
11/27/17 5:50:18 PM
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Fake news. We don't want net censorship/monitoring.
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Axiom
11/27/17 5:51:22 PM
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Corrupt pieces of shit doing everything they can to get it repealed. What a surprise
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