FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Anti-Net Neutrality Spam is Removed
a JFoss Blog
http://jeffreyfossett.com/2017/05/13/fcc-filings.html
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Many of the top comments are variants of Oliver’s recommended comment supporting net neutrality backed by Title II oversight. This demonstrates that Oliver was likely an inspiration for many filings5.
However, most striking is that the top-submitted comment (“the unprecedented regulatory power…”6) has been filed over 440,000 times, including over 270,000 times on Thursday 5/11 alone:
We can’t say for sure that all of these submissions were due to a bot (see below); however, various reports suggest that there are good reasons to believe that some share of them were. In particular, although the spam submissions include real names and addresses, many individuals whose names appear have denied submitting the comments.
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To further investigate this hypothesis, I randomly sampled 1000 filings that used the spam text and queried the HaveIBeenPwned API to retrieve a list of known data breaches that the associated emails were involved in. I found that ~76% of spam emails had been involved in at least one data breach, and ~66% were part of the RCM breach specifically:
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