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New York Attorney General issues report detailing millions of fake comments, revealing secret campaign to influence FCC’s 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules

Posted by Deimos
Tags: net neutrality, fraud, usa.ny, fcc, crime, fake comments, reports, attorney generals, press releases
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-issues-report-detailing-millions-fake-comments-revealing

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  1. [4]
    Akir
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    And of course, there's ton's of legal liability shielding so the broadband companies don't get punished for their behaviour. Just like always. At least the shady lead generator companies are...

    And of course, there's ton's of legal liability shielding so the broadband companies don't get punished for their behaviour. Just like always.

    At least the shady lead generator companies are getting punished for the shitty things they do.

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    1. [3]
      ImmobileVoyager
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      40 years can seem like always in internet-time, but the stampede to de-regulate infrastructures and to market them as commodities is rather recent on a historical scale. Also, the big telcos used...

      Just like always.

      40 years can seem like always in internet-time, but the stampede to de-regulate infrastructures and to market them as commodities is rather recent on a historical scale.

      Also, the big telcos used to be very profitable before the advent of packet-switching, which they resisted as much as they could. The network becoming non-neutral would be for them a way to re-capture part of their pre-digital supremacy.

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      1. [2]
        whispersilk
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        I've never heard about this before, and I'm really curious about it. Do you have a link I could read up on about why the advent of packet switching was so bad for their bottom line?

        Also, the big telcos used to be very profitable before the advent of packet-switching, which they resisted as much as they could.

        I've never heard about this before, and I'm really curious about it. Do you have a link I could read up on about why the advent of packet switching was so bad for their bottom line?

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        1. ImmobileVoyager
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          I don't have one precise reference, but I remember this book as giving a rather good overview of the "pre-history" of the internet. Not precisely about circuits vs. packets, but check this...

          I don't have one precise reference, but I remember this book as giving a rather good overview of the "pre-history" of the internet.

          Not precisely about circuits vs. packets, but check this chronicle. It's about some of the baby steps of an adolescent internet leaving the confines of government laboratories and going to the market.

          Of course, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

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