FCC should delay decision because of fake comments
We can now say this for pen, paper, envelope and stamp: It would require a daunting effort to launch a campaign meant to flood an agency or member of Congress with bogus public comments using them.
It’s much simpler when you can use a bot on the internet that posts tens of thousands of submissions in a single second.
And it’s a practice that threatens to drown out the legitimate comments of American citizens who weigh in on a number of policies and practices under consideration by federal and state agencies or who want to share their opinion with their government representatives.
That’s clear now following a report Wednesday by the Pew Research Center that found that of the 21.7 million “public” comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission regarding “net neutrality,” only 6 percent were “unique,” meaning they were submitted from a single, verifiable email address. The other 94 percent were submitted multiple times, in some cases hundreds of thousands of times, Pew reported.
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