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Months Later, And People Are Still Discovering Their Dead Loved Ones Were Used To Support Killing Net Neutrality

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By now we've well-established that the FCC's attempt to repeal net neutrality rules has been rife with fraud. From fake DDOS attacks to bogus comments during the open comment period, there was a fairly obvious effort made by the FCC and a mysterious ally (gosh, who benefits?) to downplay massive public opposition to the plan. And while the FCC has completely blocked law enforcement investigations into which group was behind these efforts, you can expect significantly more details to emerge during the court battles in the new year.
That said, nearly four months have passed since the FCC closed its public comment period, and we're still finding new instances of identity theft, or cases where a dead loved one's identity was used to justify the FCC's blatant handout to telecom duopolies. For example, the sister of Stranger Things star Sean Astin posted on Twitter that their dead mother's identity had been used to help kill net neutrality:

Months Later, And People Are Still Discovering Their Dead Loved Ones Were Used To Support Killing Net Neutrality

Dec 26, 2017, 3:19pm UTC

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171219/11245638845/months-later-people-are-still-discovering-their-dead-loved-ones-were-used-to-support-killing-net-neutrality.shtml >By now we've well-established that the FCC's attempt to repeal net neutrality rules has been rife with fraud. From fake DDOS attacks to bogus comments during the open comment period, there was a fairly obvious effort made by the FCC and a mysterious ally (gosh, who benefits?) to downplay massive public opposition to the plan. And while the FCC has completely blocked law enforcement investigations into which group was behind these efforts, you can expect significantly more details to emerge during the court battles in the new year. >That said, nearly four months have passed since the FCC closed its public comment period, and we're still finding new instances of identity theft, or cases where a dead loved one's identity was used to justify the FCC's blatant handout to telecom duopolies. For example, the sister of Stranger Things star Sean Astin posted on Twitter that their dead mother's identity had been used to help kill net neutrality: