EFF Pushes Back Further Against NLPC on Net Neutrality Comments; FR Notes Deadlines
The Electronic Frontier Foundation further disputed a National Legal and Policy Center report that EFF submitted 100,000 fake comments to FCC net neutrality docket 17-108 (see 1705310019). "NLPC’s report is false. Not one name, email address, or email domain cited…
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in the report matches to any of the comments that came through EFF's comment tool," EFF, which denied the claim earlier in the week, blogged Thursday. "Unfortunately, NLPC didn’t reach out to us before publishing its report. If they had, we would have been able to share our evidence with them and they could have avoided publishing a flawed report." NLPC stands "behind our analysis 100%," emailed President Peter Flaherty. "EFF is denying an accusation we did not make. We never said they sent the comments or that the comments went through their website. We are glad EFF confirms one of our key findings." He pointed us to a response. Meanwhile, the Federal Register published a summary of the NPRM that proposes to reverse Title II broadband reclassification and revisit net neutrality rules under the Communications Act. Comments are due July 17, replies Aug. 16. Paperwork Reduction Act comments are due Aug. 1.