New York expands probe into fake FCC comments on net neutrality
https://www.cnet.com/news/new-york-questions-industry-and-advocacy-groups-over-fake-net-neutrality-comments/
Barbara Underwood, who became the attorney general in New York earlier this year when Eric Schneiderman stepped down, subpoenaed at least a dozen groups on Tuesday. She wants to know if these groups had anything to do with the 22 million fraudulent letters that flooded the FCC's electronic comment system in 2017 when the FCC was considering repealing the net neutrality rules.
The FCC, led by Republican Ajit Pai, voted last December to repeal the 2015 net neutrality regulations, which prohibited broadband providers from blocking or slowing down traffic and banned them from offering so-called fast lanes to companies willing to pay extra to reach consumers more quickly than competitors.