Article 2Q9WE The FCC will not disregard anti-Net Neutrality comments left by identity-stealing bots

The FCC will not disregard anti-Net Neutrality comments left by identity-stealing bots

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Cory Doctorow
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Before the FCC stopped taking comments on its plans to destroy Net Neutrality (but after so many people rallied to tell it not to that its site crashed and the agency manufactured a fake denial of service attack to avoid admitting how much America hated its plans), the FCC's comment form was flooded with 128,000 identical comments sent by bots that used an alphabetical series of stolen names and addresses, possibly taken from an old voter registration data breach. (more")

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