FCC Published Fake Comments by Dead Actor Patty Duke, Sean Astin’s Mother, Supporting End of Net Neutrality
Mackenzie Astin brought the attention of this outrageous fiasco out on twitter, calling out to the FCC and Ajit Pai to investigate how this happened.
Shockingly, he wasn’t the only one who had questions.
Not only did we have a case of a deceased person being extremely concerned with net neutrality, so much so that they had to file 4 separate forms to announce their opinions, but we also have cases of living people who are apparently leaving comments to the FCC government site without any recollection of having doing so.
Now, I’m not going to pretend to know everything about the FCC and the net neutrality aspect and regulations, because honestly it confuses the he11 out of me. If there’s anything I do know, it’s that you can’t trust politicians people, and people will often twist their words in order to make something unappealing, appealing. Or vice versa. (Or they’ll just flat out lie.)
So my issue with this is not about the whole Obama administration, or Thomas Wheeler, Ajit Pai, or who is for what and who is against what and such in regards to net neutrality, but it is to look at the deceptive tactics that are being used in order to push for a certain outcome.
The fact that not only are there multiple deceased people leaving comments on a government website in support of or in opposition of a certain bill, there are also accounts of plenty of living people who are being used, without their knowledge, to administer to a specific point of view.
Take the cases of Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Pat Toomey. Both of their names were used, allegedly without their knowledge, in order to support ending net neutrality.
This is a fun case, because it’s very rare when you have two people on the opposite side of the spectrum, one a Democrat, the other a Republican, actually coming together to tackle a common cause.
Did you hear about the Chicago Republican who died?
He votes Democrat now.