<story><title>FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftyguy</author><text>So basically, it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter if comments are fake or legitimate, if pai is going to ignore them anyways.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some background:&lt;p&gt;28 senators, and the New York Attorney General, had to tell Pai to stop the FCC voting on new rules last year because of all the fraudulent comments. The fake comments were made apparent over a year ago. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-senators-letter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The FCC refused to provide records to the NY AG in order to investigate the possibility of fake comments. In other words, the NY AG was the only part of the government investigating the fake comments, and the FCC actively worked against investigating them. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.slashdot.org&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;0037222&amp;#x2F;fcc-refuses-records-for-investigation-into-fake-net-neutrality-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.slashdot.org&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;0037222&amp;#x2F;fcc-refuses...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pai&amp;#x27;s office issued this response to calls to delay the vote:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet
  regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort
  to defeat Chairman Pai&amp;#x27;s plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled.
  The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
As promised, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality.&lt;p&gt;And now, 7 months later, the FCC is saying there were fraudulent comments, and maybe they should redesign their website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Delmania</author><text>Right, this is a poor attempt to save face.  Pai was going to repeal net neutrality no matter what, his corporate sponsors&amp;#x2F;donors&amp;#x2F;masters demanded that.  Now that he&amp;#x27;s achieved his single goal, now he can pretend to care about everyone else in an attempt to influence the midterm elections.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftyguy</author><text>So basically, it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter if comments are fake or legitimate, if pai is going to ignore them anyways.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some background:&lt;p&gt;28 senators, and the New York Attorney General, had to tell Pai to stop the FCC voting on new rules last year because of all the fraudulent comments. The fake comments were made apparent over a year ago. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-senators-letter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The FCC refused to provide records to the NY AG in order to investigate the possibility of fake comments. In other words, the NY AG was the only part of the government investigating the fake comments, and the FCC actively worked against investigating them. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.slashdot.org&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;0037222&amp;#x2F;fcc-refuses-records-for-investigation-into-fake-net-neutrality-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.slashdot.org&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;0037222&amp;#x2F;fcc-refuses...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pai&amp;#x27;s office issued this response to calls to delay the vote:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet
  regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort
  to defeat Chairman Pai&amp;#x27;s plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled.
  The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
As promised, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality.&lt;p&gt;And now, 7 months later, the FCC is saying there were fraudulent comments, and maybe they should redesign their website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>He will ignore any comments that go against his politics of maximal corporate profit and minimal service to the public citizenry.</text></comment>