I could have sworn that I signed in! How did it turn up anonymous?

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Right now the attorney generals of Washington State and New York State are seeking an injunction given that a huge number of the comments in favor of dropping Net Neutrality were filed using stolen identities.

The FCC is refusing to co-operate so far with the investigation, or produce their server logs to back up the claims that they suffered a denial-of-service attack, rather than just pulled the plug to prevent people from telling them what they didn't want to hear after John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" show brought attention to the issue and created an easy way to contact the FCC on the issue directly last time this came up. I am a strong proponent of "presume innocent until proven guilty" and an individual's right to privacy. But a government that wants to claim its legitimacy comes from the will of its citizens can't claim that legitimacy if its people don't know what their government is doing.

I'm always in Tinfoil hat mode, but I wouldn't be surprised if Comcast and Verizon didn't just use their customers' billing addresses to file those fraudulent comments on their behalf, since they collect that information when people pay their bills or sign up for broadband.

It wouldn't be the first time a big company has stooped to petty sockpuppeting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AshleyMadisondatabreach#Dataanalysis] to mislead and defraud their customers or the public at large.
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