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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by deathanatos on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:44PM (#35943682)
> but even with the fakes the majority of comments were in favor of keeping the Obama era net neutrality bylaws.

… no?

> The proceeding generated a record-breaking number of comments — more than 22 million — and nearly 18 million were fake, the attorney general’s office found.

81% of the comments were astroturf.

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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by courseofaction on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:30AM (#35943898)
This should absolutely be jailable.
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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by retox on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:13AM (#35944101)
This doesn't appear in the article, I'm not doubting it but where is it from?
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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by Jedd on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:47AM (#35944296)
https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-technolog...
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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by deathanatos on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:22PM (#35954652)
https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-technolog...

It's the article-within-the-article, linked to at "second series of agreements secured".

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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by boomboomsubban on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:02AM (#35945422)
This is what I'm basing that off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...

>One of the first studies performed after the closure of the public commenting period, done on behalf of Broadband for America, which sought to repeal the Obama-era rules, found that 60% of the comments were in favor of retaining the current rules..

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Re:Companies to pay $615,00 in investigation over faked net ... by crawsome on Monday May 15, 2023 @08:55AM (#35947404)
Wow, net neutrality was killed by a conservative tobacco lobbyist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Individual_Freedo...

Bad people get away with everything...

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