The FCC asked for net neutrality opinions, then rejected most of them
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.
The FCC asked for net neutrality opinions, then rejected most of them
Dec 1, 2017, 2:32pm UTC
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.