Ajit Pai has admitted what most people already figured out that during the public comment period about Net Neutrality, Russian bot farms were polluting the process.
As many as nine and a half million people had their identities stolen and used to file fake comments, which is a crime under both federal and state laws,” she wrote. “Nearly eight million comments were filed from e-mail domains associated with FakeMailGenerator.com. On top of this, roughly half a million comments were filed from Russian e-mail addresses. Something here is rotten—and it’s time for the FCC to come clean.”
In his response, Pai says it is a “fact” that some of the comments were submitted using Russian e-mail addresses, but argues many of those comments supported net neutrality. The “fact” comment—as Gizmodo points out—is different than what was said in a court filing related to the lawsuit where the FCC claims it is not convinced of Russian interference.
The thing that I found crazy about this is that nearly 100% of the real responses… myself included… was in favor of keeping Net Neutrality rules but Pai ignored all of those and basically ignored at the time that there was a campaign of using fake accounts.
I only referred to them because I just watched sicario the other night. …and while it was interesting…Emily blunt role was pointless and stupid …oh noes I’m the straight arrow and I might do something! And then never really does…
So the investigations into the public comment period continues.
So what do we know.
That millions of comments were fake.
That russian bot farms were involved.
That people in Trump’s orbit were involved.
That a lot of names were gained through outright identity theft
And now we know that a good amount of the comments were driven by right leaning dark money groups.
