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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Open Letter to the FCC (from NYAG Schneiderman about fake FCC comments)
https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a(will fix link asap)
Dear FCC Chairman Ajit Pai:
As you recently announced, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under your leadership, soon will release rules to dismantle your agencys existing net neutrality protections under Title II of the Communications Act, which shield the public from anti-consumer behaviors of the giant cable companies that provide high-speed internet to most people. In todays digital age, the rules that govern the operation and delivery of internet service to hundreds of millions of Americans are critical to the economic and social well-being of the nation. Yet the process the FCC has employed to consider potentially sweeping alterations to current net neutrality rules has been corrupted by the fraudulent use of Americans identities and the FCC has been unwilling to assist my office in our efforts to investigate this unlawful activity.
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Successfully investigating this sort of illegal conduct requires the participation of the agency whose system was attacked. So in June 2017, we contacted the FCC to request certain records related to its public comment system that were necessary to investigate which bad actor or actors were behind the misconduct. We made our request for logs and other records at least 9 times over 5 months: in June, July, August, September, October (three times), and November.
We reached out for assistance to multiple top FCC officials, including you, three successive acting FCC General Counsels, and the FCCs Inspector General. We offered to keep the requested records confidential, as we had done when my office and the FCC shared information and documents as part of past investigative work.
Yet we have received no substantive response to our investigative requests. None.
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An Open Letter to the FCC (from NYAG Schneiderman about fake FCC comments) (Original Post)
steve2470
Nov 2017
OP
The lack of response to the NYAG letters is because Mr. Pai is most likely as
justhanginon
Nov 2017
#3
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. FCC is hiding illegal activities
BootinUp
(47,197 posts)2. No worries the swamp will be drained
Some day.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)3. The lack of response to the NYAG letters is because Mr. Pai is most likely as
dirty and corrupt as the rest of this administration. The American people and their well being has never and will never be a part of any thought process or consideration of bills or regulations by this administration.
The furthering of corporate greed is what they are all about..
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. yes, first and foremost Trump's greed! nt
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)5. Pai and the FCC are corrupt. Apparently all US institutions are corrupt.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)6. Trumpies better pray this was the Russians
and not corporate criminals supported by the FCC.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)7. K&R