Net Neutrality - Pulbic Opinion 82% were fake in 2017

[The Conservative]

I said it before, and I will say it again, when entities such as Comcast want Net Neutrality, perhaps it wasn't a good idea in the first place? Perhaps they should have actually reviewed the data before saying the majority of people agreed to repeal it? Seriously... fucking hell... talk about getting played.

https://www.engadget.com/new-york-state ... 17463.html

According to the report, most of those came from a single college student, who was 19 at the time. They used automated software to generate the responses. All told, of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received on the matter, James says more than 18 million were fake. Put another way, more than 80 percent of the input the agency collected to inform its decision didn't come from real people.

[C-Mag]

President Greenscreen has an 82% approval rating. Maybe that college student is still at it

[DBTrek]

President Greenscreen has an 82% approval rating. Maybe that college student is still at it

For sure!

[The Conservative]

President Greenscreen has an 82% approval rating. Maybe that college student is still at it

82% to leftists... that's not an accurate number either way.

[TheOneX]

I said it before, and I will say it again, when entities such as Comcast want Net Neutrality, perhaps it wasn't a good idea in the first place? Perhaps they should have actually reviewed the data before saying the majority of people agreed to repeal it? Seriously... fucking hell... talk about getting played.

https://www.engadget.com/new-york-state ... 17463.html

According to the report, most of those came from a single college student, who was 19 at the time. They used automated software to generate the responses. All told, of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received on the matter, James says more than 18 million were fake. Put another way, more than 80 percent of the input the agency collected to inform its decision didn't come from real people.

Following years of investigation, the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has published a report on exactly what happened in 2017. The investigation found the "largest" broadband companies funded a secret astroturfing campaign to push the FCC toward repealing net neutrality. At the time, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon (Engadget's parent company) were in favor of repealing the policy. The industry hired several third-party firms to build public support for their decision. Ostensibly, those companies were supposed to convince people to support the broadband industry with incentives like gift cards and prizes. Instead, they simply submitted 8.5 million fake comments. The attorney general has fined three of the companies involved in sending in those comments $4.4 million.

On the other side, the FCC received another 9.3 million fake comments in support of maintaining net neutrality. According to the report, most of those came from a single college student, who was 19 at the time. They used automated software to generate the responses. All told, of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received on the matter, James says more than 18 million were fake. Put another way, more than 80 percent of the input the agency collected to inform its decision didn't come from real people.

Here is the full context of the quote. According to the article 51% of the 18 million fake comments were pro-Net Neutrality and 49% of the fake comments are anti-Net Neutrality. The 8.5 million comments against it came from entities such as Comcast. So I'm not sure why you are saying Comcast wanted Net Neutrality when the article you are linking says they were trying to get Net Neutrality repealed?

[The Conservative]

I said it before, and I will say it again, when entities such as Comcast want Net Neutrality, perhaps it wasn't a good idea in the first place? Perhaps they should have actually reviewed the data before saying the majority of people agreed to repeal it? Seriously... fucking hell... talk about getting played.

https://www.engadget.com/new-york-state ... 17463.html

According to the report, most of those came from a single college student, who was 19 at the time. They used automated software to generate the responses. All told, of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received on the matter, James says more than 18 million were fake. Put another way, more than 80 percent of the input the agency collected to inform its decision didn't come from real people.

Following years of investigation, the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has published a report on exactly what happened in 2017. The investigation found the "largest" broadband companies funded a secret astroturfing campaign to push the FCC toward repealing net neutrality. At the time, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon (Engadget's parent company) were in favor of repealing the policy. The industry hired several third-party firms to build public support for their decision. Ostensibly, those companies were supposed to convince people to support the broadband industry with incentives like gift cards and prizes. Instead, they simply submitted 8.5 million fake comments. The attorney general has fined three of the companies involved in sending in those comments $4.4 million.

On the other side, the FCC received another 9.3 million fake comments in support of maintaining net neutrality. According to the report, most of those came from a single college student, who was 19 at the time. They used automated software to generate the responses. All told, of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received on the matter, James says more than 18 million were fake. Put another way, more than 80 percent of the input the agency collected to inform its decision didn't come from real people.

Here is the full context of the quote. According to the article 51% of the 18 million fake comments were pro-Net Neutrality and 49% of the fake comments are anti-Net Neutrality. The 8.5 million comments against it came from entities such as Comcast. So I'm not sure why you are saying Comcast wanted Net Neutrality when the article you are linking says they were trying to get Net Neutrality repealed?

8.5 million from Comcast, as in from Comcast itself or those within the Comcast network?

And because they wanted it removed, or do you forget the push back then?

https://slate.com/technology/2017/11/co ... royed.html

[TheOneX]

I said it before, and I will say it again, when entities such as Comcast want Net Neutrality, perhaps it wasn't a good idea in the first place? Perhaps they should have actually reviewed the data before saying the majority of people agreed to repeal it? Seriously... fucking hell... talk about getting played.

https://www.engadget.com/new-york-state ... 17463.html

Following years of investigation, the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has published a report on exactly what happened in 2017. The investigation found the "largest" broadband companies funded a secret astroturfing campaign to push the FCC toward repealing net neutrality. At the time, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon (Engadget's parent company) were in favor of repealing the policy. The industry hired several third-party firms to build public support for their decision. Ostensibly, those companies were supposed to convince people to support the broadband industry with incentives like gift cards and prizes. Instead, they simply submitted 8.5 million fake comments. The attorney general has fined three of the companies involved in sending in those comments $4.4 million.

On the other side, the FCC received another 9.3 million fake comments in support of maintaining net neutrality. According to the report, most of those came from a single college student, who was 19 at the time. They used automated software to generate the responses. All told, of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received on the matter, James says more than 18 million were fake. Put another way, more than 80 percent of the input the agency collected to inform its decision didn't come from real people.

Here is the full context of the quote. According to the article 51% of the 18 million fake comments were pro-Net Neutrality and 49% of the fake comments are anti-Net Neutrality. The 8.5 million comments against it came from entities such as Comcast. So I'm not sure why you are saying Comcast wanted Net Neutrality when the article you are linking says they were trying to get Net Neutrality repealed?

8.5 million from Comcast, as in from Comcast itself or those within the Comcast network?

And because they wanted it removed, or do you forget the push back then?

https://slate.com/technology/2017/11/co ... royed.html

Ok, you are contradicting yourself. Do you think Net Neutrality is a good thing or a bad thing. In your first comment you said it was a bad thing because Comcast supported it.