My statement that the FCC generated the fake comments is conjecture. Between the refusal to cooperate that you pointed out, and that the outcome of those commen

My statement that the FCC generated the fake comments is conjecture. Between the refusal to cooperate that you pointed out, and that the outcome of those comments is exactly in line with the intent that Pai has indicated (since well before his appointment), I think my conjecture has a high probability of being correct. I've worked on election campaigns and the like (software dev and sys administration), and observed the use of bot generated comments in EVERY one of them. Based on my experiences, it seems highly unlikely that they refrained from using them in this instance. It would be a deviation from standard operating procedure.