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The protests will be held outside Verizon stores on December 7, a week before an expected December 14 vote on Pai's proposal. They chose Verizon because Verizon has been a leading opponent of the net neutrality rules and because Pai worked as Verizon's associate general counsel from 2001 to 2003.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... ecember-7/

"While some of these fake comments used made-up names and addresses, many misused the real names and addresses of actual people as part of the effort to undermine the integrity of the comment process," Schneiderman wrote. "That's akin to identity theft, and it happened on a massive scale."


People who were impersonated by anti-net neutrality spammers blast FCC Schneiderman's office found that tens of thousands of New Yorkers may have had their identities misused in this way. "Indeed, analysis showed that, in all, hundreds of thousands of Americans likely were victimized in the same way, including tens of thousands per state in California, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and possibly others," he wrote. "Impersonation and other misuse of a person’s identity violates New York law, so my office launched an investigation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... y-ag-says/