NY AG wants net neutrality vote delayed to investigate fake comments submitted to FCC

[DonViejo]

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 agency’s 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 FCC’s 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.

“I’m 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 agency’s inspector general’s office that morning.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/363157-ny-ag-wants-net-neutrality-vote-delayed-to-investigate-fake-comments

[RKP5637]

1. K&R! n/t

[Baconator]

2. Won't happen...

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]

3. Oh, theyll delay the vote by 24 hours until the wee hours on the 15th...

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]

6. No they won't

That's not how the FCC works.

[summer_in_TX]

4. Hopefully those faked emails will be evidence

in lawsuits seeking to overturn the anticipated FCC action.

[onenote]

7. No chance.

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).

[Duppers]

5. K & R