NY AG investigating fraudulent net neutrality comments

"The FCC’s public comment process was corrupted by millions of fake comments — and our investigation found that as many as 9.53 million of those comments stole the identities of real people."

That's out of about 20 million, so they think half the comments were made with stolen identities

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/new-yorks-ag-has-subpoenaed-14-groups-over-the-net?bfsource=relatedmanual

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14 Groups Have Been Subpoenaed Over The Millions Of Anti-Net Neutrality Comments Filed Without People's Permission

When millions of people’s names were used to oppose — or in some cases, support —net neutrality without their permission, the FCC ignored it. But the investigation has taken a big turn.

The FCC lied when it claimed there was a DDoS attack according to an inspector general report. Surprise, surprise. Not.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-lied-to-congress-about-made-up-ddos-attack-investigation-found/

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FCC lied to Congress about made-up DDoS attack, investigation found

Despite lies to Congress, US attorney declined to prosecute any FCC employees.

Burger King demonstrates an important aspect of Net Neutrality with Whopper Neutrality ad.

"Actual guests. Fake pricing for illustration purposes only."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ltzy5vRmN8Q?rel=0&

Read the Verge article about the ad.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16927890/burger-king-net-neutrality-ad

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Burger King | Whopper Neutrality - YouTube

Sen Schumer says there will be a congressional vote on the Net Neutrality repeal.

Not likely to change anything, but might force congresspeople to take a stand one way or another.

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/there-will-be-a-senate-vote-to-reinstate-net-neutrality-schumer-says/

“There will be a [Senate] vote” to reinstate net neutrality, Schumer says

Congress could block net neutrality repeal, but Democrats face tough odds.