FCC Chairman Ajit Pai refuses to investigate or cooperate with outside investigations of hundreds of thousands—maybe millions—of instances of fake anti-neutrality comments to the agency. There's rock-solid evidence that real people's names and addresses were stolen by hackers to make comments against an open internet, without their knowledge or permission. Pai, rather than acknowledging this, is using it as an excuse to toss out almost all comments on the issue, so that he can ignore the millions of pro-net neutrality comments. House Democrats want an investigation, so they're asking the Government Accountability Office to do it.
“We understand that the FCC’s rulemaking process requires it to address all comments it receives, regardless of who submits them,” the letter reads. “However, we do not believe any outside parties should be permitted to generate any comments to any federal government entity using information it knows to be false, such as the identities of those submitting the comments.”
The group was led by Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.). […]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) said this week that his office identified about 1 million comments that may have been submitted under stolen identities. Schneiderman, who supports the net neutrality rules, joined a growing list of Democrats who called on the FCC to cancel its Dec. 14 vote to repeal rules.
Pai isn't just refusing to cooperate with Schneiderman's investigation, he's moving forward with the Dec. 14 vote. So the opposition (that's us!) is fighting back, with over 600 protests happening tomorrow, Dec. 7, at Verizon stores all across the nation. If Pai's corporate overlords feel the pain, so will he.
Time is running out before Trump's FCC and Big Cable destroy net neutrality—but we can still stop them. Tell congress to oppose Trump FCC's plan to destroy net neutrality and the open internet