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Not like IBM would ever lie in court. https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/ https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/18/ibm_government

Not like IBM would ever lie in court. https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/ https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_... And the other link is an assertion by an anonymous person that they're totally on the up and up. What would you expect if they were not, a confession? Would Florian Muller make a confession if he were anonymously posting as FM (Frank Matthew) while getting paid as a consultant? No one would ever know he was getting paid if we didn't know his real identity.

gpm 5y ago
What's more likely? IBM lied to the court for no good reason (paying for shills is not illegal, just strange), the author of groklaw made up a name and later in life violated federal law by filing comments to UPTSO under it, other named lawyers worked with her on that. Or she really is named what she claims to be named? You're inventing wild conspiracies that don't even have a good reason to exist.
- belltaco 5y ago
  >later in life violated federal law by filing comments to UPTSO under it That "violation" means nothing. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/80-of-the-22-million-comments-on-net-neutrality-rollback-were-fake-investigation-finds/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/80-of-the-22-million-comme...
  - gpm 5y ago
    > The wholesale undermining of the processes of government earned fines of $3.7 million, $550,000 and $150,000 for Fluent Inc., React2Media and Opt-Intelligence, respectively. There are also “comprehensive reforms” imposed on them, though it may be best not to expect much from those. I would suggest that just about no individual is interested in millions of dollars of fines... If I read this properly, it also doesn't prohibit the possibility of criminal charges in that case either. That case also didn't exist at the time, so didn't exist as precedent for believe that you might get off "lightly".
    - belltaco 5y ago
      Those fines were all for faking millions of comments. You're talking about one. Where is the precedent in the FTC case for going after someone for one fake comment, and that too for putting an alias and not for other misrepresentation? https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-a-crime-to-use-a-different-name-than-your-le-1550271.html https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-a-crime-to-use-a-di... https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-legal-status-of-pseudonyms/answer/Robert-Wagner-2?ch=10&oid=9051138&share=c8478421&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-legal-status-of-pseudonyms... One would hope a competent paralegal would know that.

gpm 5y ago

What's more likely? IBM lied to the court for no good reason (paying for shills is not illegal, just strange), the author of groklaw made up a name and later in life violated federal law by filing comments to UPTSO under it, other named lawyers worked with her on that. Or she really is named what she claims to be named? You're inventing wild conspiracies that don't even have a good reason to exist.

belltaco 5y ago
>later in life violated federal law by filing comments to UPTSO under it That "violation" means nothing. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/80-of-the-22-million-comments-on-net-neutrality-rollback-were-fake-investigation-finds/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/80-of-the-22-million-comme...
- gpm 5y ago
  > The wholesale undermining of the processes of government earned fines of $3.7 million, $550,000 and $150,000 for Fluent Inc., React2Media and Opt-Intelligence, respectively. There are also “comprehensive reforms” imposed on them, though it may be best not to expect much from those. I would suggest that just about no individual is interested in millions of dollars of fines... If I read this properly, it also doesn't prohibit the possibility of criminal charges in that case either. That case also didn't exist at the time, so didn't exist as precedent for believe that you might get off "lightly".
  - belltaco 5y ago
    Those fines were all for faking millions of comments. You're talking about one. Where is the precedent in the FTC case for going after someone for one fake comment, and that too for putting an alias and not for other misrepresentation? https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-a-crime-to-use-a-different-name-than-your-le-1550271.html https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-a-crime-to-use-a-di... https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-legal-status-of-pseudonyms/answer/Robert-Wagner-2?ch=10&oid=9051138&share=c8478421&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-legal-status-of-pseudonyms... One would hope a competent paralegal would know that.