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Net Neutrality’s Millions Of Public Comments Were mostly Fake, Report Finds

Ashe Schow
Net Neutrality’s Millions Of Public Comments Were mostly Fake, Report Finds
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Way back at the beginning of the Trump administration, a battle raged across the internet over net neutrality, a hotly divided political issue most people didn’t truly understand. The Obama administration was all for net neutrality, even though it wouldn’t have made a difference to users but would have created more government control over our lives. The Trump administration, by contrast, was against that additional government power and repealed net neutrality — to the notice of absolutely no one.

The internet didn’t collapse, prices didn’t increase, people didn’t die, and most forgot all about net neutrality. But as RedState’s Kira Davis reported, a report from Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, found that most of the more than 22 million public comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) were actually spam blasts.

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