Sorry, this isn’t exactly a diary, but I am curious if anyone else here received this email:
Hello,
You are receiving this email because, according to the public records of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), you submitted comments in FCC Proceeding 17-108 regarding net neutrality on 07/17/2017.
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This is the comment that was attributed to XXXXXXXXXXXXX with email address XXXXXXXXXXXX:
"The FCC's Open Internet Rules (net neutrality rules) are extremely important to me. I urge you to protect them.I don't want ISPs….."
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The Truth In Public Comments research team at Startup Policy Lab
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I did leave this comment this past summer supporting net neutrality, so I was very relieved to see that my name and email were attributed to a comment I actually made. As I started reading this email I was afraid I’d be reading, then disputing some fake anti-net neutrality comment a Russian bot submitted using my information. As many of you know at least half a million anti-net neutrality comments were filed from Russian email addresses. This whole situation needs to be investigated before the FCC votes on net neutrality, in fact, this issue is so important that public hearings should be held on it. We cannot let obvious Russian interference, big corporate greed and their pathetic lap dogs, let alone public complacency or ignorance of the seriousness of this issue allow a-holes like Ajit push through a devastatingly stupid reversal of net neutrality rules.