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So no one it going to jails $4 million in penalties for broadband companies is their cafeteria budget for a week https://t.co/hwS4T4psrV
— Formerly Known as ALT-immigration ? (@ALT_uscis) May 6, 2021
Pai left millions of Americans with slow broadband (or no broadband at all) even as the pandemic moved all education, employment, healthcare, and family life online. He is one of history's great monsters.
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 6, 2021
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Back in 2017, @fightfortheftr started noticing suspicious comments flooding the FCC docket. All of them opposed #NetNeutrality. We published a blog post about it and some journos started investigating.
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) May 6, 2021
Today the NY AG announced they have proof this fraud was funded by the ISPs. https://t.co/2Iy0JlYl5U
Holy Moly. NY AG report finds out of the 22 million net neutrality comments the FCC received in 2017, 18 million were fake.
— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) May 6, 2021
Report alleges a "secret campaign" by the broadband industry, which offered consumers rewards for male enhancement drugs ‼️ https://t.co/5WN2BM6YXA
In an era filled with transparent grifts, this had to have been the most transparent. Not only were the letters comically duplicative and clearly fake, the idea that masses of normal people would write in to *support* net neutrality is laughable. https://t.co/6A02yS1orC
— Drew Breunig (@dbreunig) May 6, 2021
wow...
— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) May 6, 2021
"Through its investigation, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that, in 2017, the nation’s largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to generate millions of comments to the FCC."https://t.co/ut8rDk6TZk
Sounds like each comment should be a separate felony offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. https://t.co/SLGMppkNuo
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) May 6, 2021
Corporate influence infects our system in many different ways, making a mockery of our democracy. https://t.co/eLFheBHNs8
— Shahid Buttar for Congress (@ShahidForChange) May 7, 2021
? In a jaw-dropping new report, NY Dem AG @TishJames has found that more than 18 MILLION of the public comments received by the @FCC re: #NetNeutrality were FAKE...
— Democratic AGs (@DemocraticAGs) May 6, 2021
... and MILLIONS of those were funded by the broadband industry itself.
READ MORE ⤵️https://t.co/vSKdIzyoAO
A little-known influence industry that generates made-up comments and often attaches the names of real people caught up in marketing ploys was highlighted in a report on nearly 18 million fake comments filed with the FCC over its net-neutrality proposal https://t.co/QOprV3Jns7
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 6, 2021
"nearly every comment and message the broadband industry submitted to the FCC and Congress was fake, signed using the names and addresses of millions of individuals without their knowledge or consent."https://t.co/xGGn28lNDo https://t.co/wnVFktORYZ
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) May 6, 2021
Despite promises of transparency, @AjitPai did not ensure the broadband industry's secret astroturfing campaign came to light, nor did @TheJusticeDept: @NewYorkStateAG did. (Federalism FTW.)
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) May 6, 2021
Is a rulemaking based on fake & fraudulent comments legally binding, @JRosenworcelFCC? https://t.co/NO5Fl2Ut9v
Internet rights advocacy organization Fight for the Future issued a king-size “I told you so” noting that they had flagged this process at the time and helped bring it to the attention of both government officials and ordinary folks. #NetNeutrality https://t.co/yK41RhsVxg
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) May 6, 2021
Here's @fightfortheftr's statement: we're calling for criminal charges against the companies and executives that funded this fraudulent disinformation campaign, and an investigation into whether they also funded a paid hacking campaign that targeted us. https://t.co/q3ZMAQRlel https://t.co/FRNTxde2lE
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) May 6, 2021
I’m shocked SHOCKED. If you care about quality broadband in the US listen to my conversation with Bruce Patterson on next weeks episode of #HowToCitizen https://t.co/j6XEvoae9c https://t.co/FgzyjsDEMH
— Baratunde (@baratunde) May 6, 2021
MSNBC parent company Comcast and CNN parent company AT&T paid lead generators, which used promises of dick pills and discounted Disney movies, to trick people into signing comments to the Trump administration to repeal net neutrality, NY AG report shows. https://t.co/eq4mesTMIX
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 6, 2021
Literally, this should kill the debate over #NetNeutrality once and for all. If we can’t trust ISPs to not put their thumbs on the scale during the debate, how can we trust them to be neutral without the law? https://t.co/AsEtT3GCGz
— MissMess (@ItsMissMess) May 6, 2021
This is so important.
— Amy Spitalnick (@amyspitalnick) May 6, 2021
For years, the NYAG team & others rang the alarm on this disinformation campaign aimed at gutting #NetNeutrality. (Here’s an early NYT article via @nickconfessore: https://t.co/GqIPDqYk1X)
As the investigation found, big ISPs were behind it the whole time. https://t.co/RaQVL5YyhQ
After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 6, 2021
These illegal schemes are unacceptable.
It also finds that one single 19-year-old college student submitted more than 7 million pro-net neutrality comments under different fake identities. Wild. https://t.co/5WN2BM6YXA
— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) May 6, 2021
Unsurprisingly - but importantly - the NY AG found that 18 million of the 22 million comments the FCC received were fake, that the fake comments favored the Net Neutrality repeal, AND THAT THE FRAUD WAS A PAID OPERATION ON BEHALF OF TELCOS.https://t.co/KVEr2g5bhF
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 6, 2021
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wow, internet providers spent $4.2 million to create nine million fake comments in opposing net neutrality
— erin griffith (@eringriffith) May 6, 2021
via @dmccabe https://t.co/wKwOHn71KL
FCC’s #NetNeutrality rollback overwhelmed by bogus industry comments, investigation finds ?
— Mozilla (@mozilla) May 7, 2021
➡️ https://t.co/Q3qf2DLNmG
No wonder the majority of Americans don't trust ISPs to look out for their best interests ⬇️https://t.co/9I9jEEQqlX
This whole thread is an infuriating update on the bizarre net neutrality comment period, for anyone else who paid attention to it amidst *everything else*. https://t.co/dzIsrK9jTc
— Roby Bhattacharyya (@roby_bhatt) May 6, 2021
The broadband industry used fake and even dead people to generate bogus support for their unpopular position on net neutrality. https://t.co/GBMDvTOK3U
— VICE (@VICE) May 6, 2021
For years! I have been salty about the fake public comments on the net neutrality issue and we finally have our answers. Media manipulation on a huge scale here! https://t.co/vP79R7woSo
— Joan Donovan, PhD ? (@BostonJoan) May 6, 2021
Kids who can't get on line for Zoom school. People who can't look on line for jobs. People who can't check internet resources to protect against eviction, access health care, etc...etc...etc...That's what these companies stand for when they pull this sh*t. Thank you AG James. https://t.co/rGVXCK3nmX
— Ilyse Hogue (@ilyseh) May 6, 2021
Here's the story that anyone who looked at the comments already STRONGLY suspected: pic.twitter.com/nW79wbATfO
— Drew Breunig (@dbreunig) May 6, 2021
dark arts marketing, astroturfing, & sockpuppets. Rich cable companies, poor democracy. https://t.co/aPPv529x4k
— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) May 6, 2021
New York AG Reveals Telecom Giants Funded 'Secret Campaign' to Flood FCC With Fake Net Neutrality Comments - via @commondreams https://t.co/fwxyfvlMf1
— J. D. Will (@jaywill73097884) May 7, 2021
The New York Attorney General's Office released a report Thursday showing that major U.S. telecom companies pumped millions of dollars into a "secret campaign" that flooded the FCC with millions of fake comments in an attempt to influence the agency's 2017 https://t.co/y2N4qWM1dr
— ???cire amai ??⚖️??? (@CireAmai) May 7, 2021
New York AG Reveals Telecom Giants Funded 'Secret Campaign' to Flood FCC With Fake Net Neutrality Comments | Common Dreams News https://t.co/EyBudiRVtC
— candacemariecooper (@candies2639) May 7, 2021
New York AG Reveals Telecom Giants Funded 'Secret Campaign' to Flood FCC With Fake Net Neutrality Comments - via @commondreams https://t.co/28liJuW79y
— The Progressive (@1Progressivism) May 6, 2021
New York AG Reveals Telecom Giants Funded 'Secret Campaign' to Flood FCC With Fake Net Neutrality Comments - via @commondreams https://t.co/o32MAq2wQy
— Progressive Push (@progressivepush) May 6, 2021
They knew they couldn't rely on real public opinion, because users overwhelmingly support clear #NetNeutrality rules to prevent ISPs from unfairly prioritizing some voices and content over others. https://t.co/KNUIr64X5Z
— EFF (@EFF) May 6, 2021
?In 2017, @fightfortheftr and others exposed a large anti-net neutrality astroturfing campaign targeting rulemakers and the FCC, and flooding the FCC’s public consultation with fake comments. Yesterday, the NYAG published its investigative findings:
— Camille François (@camillefrancois) May 7, 2021
? https://t.co/7vYCyiKcE4
For years! I have been salty about the fake public comments on the net neutrality issue and we finally have our answers. Media manipulation on a huge scale here! https://t.co/vP79R7woSo
— Joan Donovan, PhD ? (@BostonJoan) May 6, 2021
Read this report from NY Atty General about fake comments. We all know there is fakery but the scale of it is shocking. Read it. https://t.co/S7SgYUkB3O
— Poppy Northcutt (@poppy_northcutt) May 7, 2021
The New York Attorney General's office was moved to open an investigation into the fraud, which Pai personally obstructed:https://t.co/zIDdAdEMET
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 6, 2021
But the investigation went on, and today, the NY AG released its findings:https://t.co/g3gAahz7fZ
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Read the report from NY Attorney General Tish James here - it’s a good one:https://t.co/Ko4t1Ah3eX pic.twitter.com/e6BB0SadgS
— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) May 7, 2021
BUT
— EmiliaxSubaru (@emiliaxsubaru) May 7, 2021
I wonder how your great mods doesn't know there is a stuff in this world called CAPTCHA...
If you really don't know, I recommend you to read this document(https://t.co/npwI7OEZGp) page 35, a really great report from honored AG. Letitia James.
Rigorous @NewYorkStateAG @TishJames rundown of broadband industry's astroturf campaign to oppose #netneutrality:
— Phil Howard (@pnhoward) May 7, 2021
8.5m fake comments to FCC
500k fake letters to Congress
4.6m comments from fake users engaging 100 other advocacy campaigns
$8.2m budget https://t.co/FQvJmwrqIg
Dear. Lord. You're not exaggerating - this is the most insane report possible, and it *does* get worse sentence over sentence. Impressive!
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) May 6, 2021
Yo peeps, read the NY AG's report here! https://t.co/uoRUwsWYC0
NY AG report on PR companies submitting millions and millions of fake comments to influence government decision making and policy.
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) May 6, 2021
These campaigns are tantamount to waging war against our nation. There is no punishment harsh enough for this filth.https://t.co/r0DZP5bcz4
“Budget documents show that, in all, the broadband industry players that funded the campaign spent $4.2 million generating and submitting more than 8.5 million fake comments to the FCC” supporting repeal of net neutrality.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 6, 2021
https://t.co/BiPF6m5GAO
NY AG's report on the ISPs misinformation campaign against net neutrality is damning, but this part explains a lot about the DC GOP.
— Ernesto Falcon (@EFFFalcon) May 6, 2021
Why do they think people are with the big ISPs? Oh its because the ISPs send the GOP 100,000s fake constituent contacts.https://t.co/0xrM8RP4Qh pic.twitter.com/tYNucFwsqm
New: an investigation by New York's attorney general has confirmed that Big Telecom paid to flood the net neutrality debate with millions of fake comments. Fluent, Opt-Intelligence, and React2Media are the companies, have to pay $4.4m https://t.co/122TpZSo0O
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) May 6, 2021
NEW from me: NY AG Letitia James today announced $4.4 million in penalties against 3 companies hired by the broadband industry to generate fake public support for the FCC's controversial 2017 #netneutrality repeal:https://t.co/u7Il5MNDSW
— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) May 6, 2021
An investigation by New York's attorney general has confirmed that Big Telecom paid to flood the net neutrality debate with millions of fake comments. https://t.co/dN42YPKphr
— VICE (@VICE) May 7, 2021
An investigation by New York's AG has confirmed that Big Telecom paid to flood the net neutrality debate with millions of fake comments. https://t.co/0zHZILCaUs
— Motherboard (@motherboard) May 7, 2021
Big telecom companies and a series of marketing execs conspired to invent fake people and also dead people to flood the FCC with anti net neutrality comments, the NY Attorney General says: https://t.co/zCYx8D30Yf
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) May 6, 2021
Remember when in 2017 digital rights folks were fighting for #netneutrality in both EU and US? In the US, an investigation by New York's attorney general has now confirmed that Big Telecom paid to flood the FCC with millions of fake comments. https://t.co/9Ei3iOIQ68
— Kirsten Fiedler (@Kirst3nF) May 7, 2021
80% of Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Were Fudged https://t.co/IoYdMVgrwx #vulnerabilities #hacks #security #malware #privacy #ransomware #databreach #iot #nsa #infosec #phishing #0day #privacy #cybersecurity
— Lance Schukies (@LanceSchukies) May 7, 2021
The NY AG did what Ajit Pais' FCC refused to do - find out who paid for fake comments about #netneutrality
— Ryan Singel (@rsingel) May 6, 2021
"The Broadband Industry Funded a Secret Campaign to Generate Millions of Comments to Provide “Cover” for the FCC’s Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules"https://t.co/3QlVh6aav6
Hello parliamentary standing committee on IT, will you ever release your #NetNeutrality report? If not the report, at-least the submissions? https://t.co/xXbP4aDCgj
— Srinivas Kodali (@digitaldutta) May 8, 2021
Big Telecom Used Fake and Dead People to Fight Net Neutrality, NY AG Says? https://t.co/omcVgTiXOk
— ??neverlearned2swim? (@DebDirtylooks) May 7, 2021