FCC commissioner, 28 senators, and New York’s attorney general call to delay net neutrality vote
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, and 28 senators want the FCC to delay its upcoming net neutrality vote, giving investigators more time to look into a spate of fake public comments submitted under real peoples’ names. They also called on the FCC to seriously investigate the source of the comments, and to cooperate with state- or federal-level probes.
The FCC is set to repeal net neutrality in a vote on December 14th, but its comment period — which is meant to give the public a voice in the process — has been beset with problems. Among other things, Schneiderman cited a Broadband for America-funded study that found nearly 8 million comments had been submitted using temporary or disposable…
