In November 2017, Resistbot was used as a channel by Medium to push Net Neutrality letters to Congress. The article published seven letter templates for readers to send to their representatives in favor of net neutrality. But without talking to each of these remaining Nicholas Thompsons, it's impossible to know for sure.Individuals couldn't send a message to the FCC or its commissioners, only the elected officials who attend to the address that the user enters into the prompts. At least one was likely real, given it was a unique comment, attached to an authentic address belonging to a Nicholas Thompson, whose voicemail recording includes his name. Several other comments were likely fake, because they were submitted using home addresses that don't exist. Those sites, of course, are riddled with inaccuracies of their own.
Others used real home addresses, but people finder sites like Spokeo and Nexis didn't turn up any Thompsons living there. Some appear to be form letters whose origins are unclear, because the text doesn't appear elsewhere online. "I am in favor of Net Neutrality and would not have made such comments." Given that the message matches the ones supposedly sent by two Nicholas Thompsons, it seems they may be fake, as well. "This post was absolutely not made by me," Seckman wrote.
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Of the biggest companies in the world a free ride at the expense ofĬonsumers and should be immediately repealed! Process controlled by Silicon Valley special interests. Obama's Net Neutrality order was the corrupt result of a corrupt "I feel, for lack of a better term, just robbed of my voice." It’s pretty sneaky on whoever decided to do that," Thompson says. When we reached him by phone, he was angry to know that his authentic comment had been effectively cancelled out by a fake comment using his information. Thompson, who now lives in Portland, says he had submitted a pro-net neutrality comment to the FCC earlier this year.
Using the email address connected to one of these bot comments, we were able to track down one real Nicholas Thompson whose name and old address in Los Angeles were being used without his knowledge. Some bot-generated comments, though, used real names and addresses. Worked very, very successfully for a long time with broad bipartisan Previous administration's decision to take over broadband is a Washington, should be free to purchase the applications we choose. I want to recommend you to overturn The previousĪdministration's decision to take over broadband. So, with the FCC declining to investigate its own comments, we decided to undertake an analysis of our own.Ĭhairman Pai: In the matter of the FCC's so-called Open Internet Now, the Commission is barreling ahead toward Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to essentially allow internet service providers to speed up or slow down internet traffic however they please. Rather, it is to gather facts and legal arguments so that the Commission can reach a well-supported decision," Brian Hart, the FCC's head of media relations, tells WIRED. "The purpose of a rulemaking proceeding is to not to see who can dump the most form letters into a docket. According to an FCC spokesman, the FCC is zeroing in on legal arguments within those comments, effectively disregarding any outpouring of support for net neutrality from regular Joes. The situation's gotten so bad that FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, as well as several members of Congress, including one Republican, have called for the FCC to postpone its December 14 net neutrality vote so that an investigation can take place. The Federal Communications Commissions' public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people who don't actually exist.
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