Mackenzie AstinVerified account

And comments that are super technical in nature.

It’s sad how the internet is being hijacked, but I don’t want it hijacked by companies either though.

My question would be how anyone would write a comment so legalese in nature. No regular citizen writes comments like that. None

Especially the dead!

Especially people as old as this. And why would people this old/dead even care?

Yeah, my Mom just learned to text last year. Dammit.

She learned? My Mom is 71 and still firmly believes that phones are for talking. Lol!

I found a similar thing for both my father's name, and my half brother's name (different father). 5 and 12 pages (respectively) of the exact same comment. However it was a brief, pro net neutrality comment. All from the same address for each name.

my kin Gail is apparently against #NetNeutrality

It wasn't my actual brother or father, I'm assuming, the addresses are in the wrong state. Whoever they are, they must have done a lot of copy/pasting.

Assuming that a Sandy Grant lives at each of those addresses, what's the likelihood that they would both write an identical letter?

People on both sides were copying templates and just pasting without making changes. Lazy, but not wrong. But you'd expect to see two people with the same name likely have opposing views or at the very least using different copy/pasted comments. It's as if whoever made

these false comments paired all instances of a name (say Jane Doe) and the different addresses for all the Jane Does with the same comment. Then used a different comment (than for Jane Doe) for all the instances of another name, say John Doe. But the same comment for each.

It's people using a form letter generator on both sides off the issue. Why you'd use it is beyond me.

That's only part of it. Bots sent a lot of comments too, people's names and addresses were used without their permission.

Probably the machines scraping the data from the yellow pages equivalent.