Article 3QS86 Two sitting Senators were among the people whose identities were stolen in FCC comments from anti-Net Neutrality bots

Two sitting Senators were among the people whose identities were stolen in FCC comments from anti-Net Neutrality bots

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Cory Doctorow
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Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was so determined to ram through a Net Neutrality repeal that he ignored the fact that the FCC's public comment inbox was flooded with fake comments from anti-Net Neutrality bots -- at least a million of them -- who indiscriminately stole identities from the dead and alive alike (Pai said he'd treat these fake comments with the same weight that he gave to comments from humans, refusing to help law enforcement track down the botmasters, so that the Congressional Budget Office had to step in). (more")

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