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The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Bots from Lying About My Views on Net Neutrality
- Overtonwindow 9y agoUnfortunately this is accurate. The open comment period for proposed rules is by law designed to be as open as humanly possible. Anything the FCC does that filters those comments, or in some way creates a barrier, will open them to lawsuits and members of congress howling about censorship. It's happened in the past and it's a nightmare. The staff has a lot of internal filtering they do (source: I worked on filtering comments for DOE once upon a time) and they can filter out obvious bots, trolls, and crap. The last thing staff want is for someone to discover later a rule was approved because of mostly bots. The lawsuits and and congressional howling would be crushing.