https://www.vox.com/technology/2017/12/1/16715274/fcc-net-neutrality-spambots-comments-pew

The internet should have made it easier to fight for net neutrality. Instead it helped kill it.

If you heard that the FCC received a staggering 21.7 million comments during its open comment period on its forthcoming net neutrality ruling, you might assume this phenomenon represented democracy in action. But in reality, those 21.7 million comments represent a new challenge to democracy — specifically to the way we register what actually counts as an opinion.