NY AG wants net neutrality vote delayed to investigate fake comments submitted to FCC
Source: The Hill
BY HARPER NEIDIG - 12/04/17 02:32 PM EST
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) on Monday called for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to hold off on its vote to repeal net neutrality pending an investigation into alleged fake comments in the agencys public record on the 2015 regulations.
Appearing in a press conference alongside Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Schneiderman said that his office had found about one million comments in the FCCs net neutrality docket that may have been submitted using stolen identities. Schneiderman said that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has so far rebuffed his requests for assistance in the probe.
Im asking Chairman Pai to join us in our effort to investigate millions of fake comments and massive identity theft perpetrated against Americans, he said.
The prosecutor added that he has contacted the FCC nine times about the investigation before finally receiving an offer of assistance from the agencys inspector generals office that morning.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/363157-ny-ag-wants-net-neutrality-vote-delayed-to-investigate-fake-comments
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Baconator
(1,459 posts)It'll pass in the night with a good bit of internet outrage but we'll get used to it...
Then the changes creep in and we get boiled slowly like a frog...
EarthFirst
(2,905 posts)Where it will get buried in the weekend news dump on the weekend before the Christmas holiday when nary a soul will be in any emotional situation to care...
Sigh.
onenote
(42,796 posts)That's not how the FCC works.
summer_in_TX
(2,766 posts)in lawsuits seeking to overturn the anticipated FCC action.
onenote
(42,796 posts)The emails, on either side, whether real or fake, don't offer any legal or factual analysis and will be ignored in the decision and irrelevant in any court challenge to the action, which will turn primarily on a question of statutory construction and whether the decision is arbitrary, capricious or contrary to law (the legal standard for judicial review of FCC actions).