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>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-millio
by 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 agoThose 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.