The FCC ’s public comment system is a blinking mess . Over the preceding two years , it ’s become apparent that political lobbyists , unremarkably acting on behalf of the telecom manufacture itself , are prepare to manipulate the agency ’s rulemaking process and impersonate everyday Americans just to make the conjuration of public support where , in world , none exists .
For crank , the FCC is deny the Times access code to these records on privacy grounds : free the IP addresses , it says , would “ comprise a clearly unjustified invasion of personal privacy . ” It further allege that releasing the logs would compromise the security of the ECFS , which is essentially a crime scene at this compass point thanks to coinciding country and federal investigation .
Comments attributed to Americans who have been saying for over a twelvemonth that their identity were steal can still be found on the FCC ’s website , in good order next to political ( and in some cases veiledanti - Semite ) notice that they did not write .
“ The retracing procedure would allow the FCC to name several request made close in time to the second the comment appears in the database , and guess which one is the actual originating petition , ” it say . “ However , the FCC can not directly and conclusively correlate one ECFS request with one ECFS input . ”
go onwards , Americans should not have to worry about whether malicious political statements , which they did not compose and do not support by , are being published by their own politics , in their name , without their consent . And at the very least , when and if this type of crime does occur , it should be the FCC ’s responsibility to ascertain that it ’s technologically potential to figure out who the perpetrator are .
If not , its poster - and - remark rulemaking is finished and this is all just administrative theater .
Correction : The original translation of this article put forward that FCC ’s API logs contained “ G ” of IP addresses . While there are thousands of record , the logarithm incorporate only dozens of unique IPs . We regret the computer error .
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