At least 60 percent of the more than...
At least 60 percent of the more than 1 million net neutrality comments to the FCC were form letters written by organized campaigns, the Sunlight Foundation said in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1oAFcYA) Tuesday about a study it did of the…
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submissions. The form letters, while a majority of the comments, composed a smaller percentage of filings than in other high-profile dockets, including those of the State Department on the Keystone pipeline and the IRS on campaign contributions by social welfare organizations, in which the foundation said more than 75 percent of submissions were form letters. Among other key findings, the study found less than 1 percent of the FCC comments were clearly opposed to net neutrality, at least 200 were written by law firms, and about two-thirds opposed the idea of paid prioritization. Those statements of opposition included many individual comments, but also form letter campaigns organized by Battle for the Net, CREDO Action, Daily Kos, Free Press and the Nation, the study said.