Many of the FCC’s record-breaking 21 million net neutrality comments are duplicates — or come from suspicious sources

Many of the FCC’s record-breaking 21 million net neutrality comments are duplicates — or come from suspicious sources

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https://www.recode.net/2017/8/30/16223210/net-neutrality-fcc-21-million-record-comments-duplicates-suspicious-data

As the Trump administration prepares to scrap the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules, it has undeniably heard an earful from web users who believe that AT&T, Comcast* and other telecom giants should be required to treat all online traffic equally.

Yet more than 90 percent of the record-breaking 21 million comments received by the Federal Communications Commission — from both sides of the debate — are essentially pre-written form letters, while millions are otherwise suspicious in origin, according to a new report released Tuesday.