FCC Urged to Investigate Fraudulent Net Neutrality Comments
Fourteen people who said comments were submitted to the FCC fraudulently under their names in support of a rollback of Communications Act Title II regulation of broadband service are demanding the agency investigate. In a letter to Chairman Ajit Pai…
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and Chief Information Officer David Bray released Thursday by Fight for the Future, the 14 said the agency should remove the fraudulent comments from the docket, publicly disclose any information it has about whoever is behind what it says are more than 450,000 fake comments and notify others whose names and addressed were used fraudulently. "While it may be convenient for you to ignore this, given that it was done in an attempt to support your position, it cannot be the case that the FCC moves forward on such a major public debate without properly investigating this known attack," the letter said. The FCC didn't comment.