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Playing devil's advocate: Was there something that ensured only American citizens (or residents or some relevant filter) could submit comments? I suspect there

Playing devil's advocate: Was there something that ensured only American citizens (or residents or some relevant filter) could submit comments? I suspect there was a fair bit of trolling as well (not excusing the lie that they were hacked though).

Teknoman117 8y ago
Not particularly. All you had to do was give a US located address. I'm also assuming (hoping?) the IP was recorded, although using VPNs isn't hard. Ironically, the democrats (or at least the current people in power and the media) tend to be against any requirement of strong ID when it comes to interacting with the government...
- chaosite 8y ago
  The US doesn't really have a form of strong ID, especially not a universal one that is easily applied.
koboll 8y ago
No. And the FCC could have said that. They also could have just simply said "Well, this is just an issue that certain subsets of internet denizens have strong feelings about, but the average citizen doesn't," just like the Obama admin said in regards to the legalize-marijuana petition. There were lots of different ways to respond that would have come off as far more legitimate, and led to the same outcome. Instead, they concocted an obviously false and politically motivated story about being "hacked".