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This is old news, well known and literally the whole "comments" was a sham anyway.

The voting was controlled by 5 people and split on party lines 3-2 [0]. NN was never actually up for debate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S... - last paragraph

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Someone should still go to jail for mass lying to the government. This would deter it in the future. Otherwise we are saying this is just the new standard operating procedure, astroturfing using dead people's identities is totally legal.

Wasn't aware of it though. Why can't news be slow?

Agreed. Nothing wrong with writing about "old" news. Just because I / you / anyone might already know something doesn't mean everybody does, and even if we already know something doesn't mean revisiting it is pointless.

Because then it isn't news anymore. It is history, and it's probably better found on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United...

By that definition everything is history and nothing is news because everything is read sometime after it was first reported.

I’m sure you didn’t mean it as such but that sounds like the kind of argument often used to shutdown discussion of egregious behaviour.

Sure, but the focus of the report is that we now have an idea of who faked the comments. Since the FCC shrugged and declined to investigate, that's taken a long time to arrive.

Granted, "small media firms deniably hired by an industry lobby group" is basically what everyone expected, but it's still interesting to see how it panned out.

The last line of defense from the incumbent. “Anyways this is old news, everyone already knows I committed an impeachable offense, so why are we even talking about it!?”

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