Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Fines: The Cost of Doing Business”.
I want to talk about the six hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in penalties for companies that faked anti-net neutrality, comments yeah, what’s going on with that? Okay, this is wild. This is like some Next Level BS. This explains not all, but at least some of how obviously beneficial things like net neutrality like right to repair. Don’T just immediately happen where everyone just goes: oh yeah. That would be good.
Let’S do that. Let’S talk about this three companies lcx digital media, lead ID and efficient. I f f. I c i n t Inc were hired by the Broadband industry to enroll consumers in a campaign to repeal net neutrality rules in 2017..
Instead, these companies submitted a combined 3.8 million fake responses to the FCC, using the identities and personal information of real people without their knowledge or consent. So, basically, if you were actually a real person who got convinced somehow that net neutrality was a bad idea and was bad, congratulations, you played yourself, you are as clever as a bot. It’S net neutrality is obvious. It is obvious that it needs to be a thing.
Um and because it’s so obvious, these companies clearly thought you know what we are never going to convince enough people of this yeah, so we just need to fake it, so we just need to fake it. These companies have agreed to pay a total of six hundred. Fifteen thousand dollars worth of penalties, so this is just over six dollars per false representation.
Wait! No! That doesn’t seem right: 3.8 million fake responses. Okay, forget that math um they were not the only companies involved, and this is actually the second batch of penalty agreements secured by the New York attorney general. These allegations first came to light in 2021, but the head of the FCC at the time at GPI was anti-net neutrality and fought attempts to investigate.
He was awful like the worst yep, like actually just paid chill. Yep authorities were unable to substantiate that the big isps who paid for these fake comments had Direct knowledge of the fraud, and thus they have not been held liable. 600 and 615 000 feels very low. That’S like cost of doing business yep.
This is disgusting. These companies shouldn’t be allowed to exist anymore in my force closed. What’S that, I don’t think these companies should be allowed to exist anymore yeah I mean I I don’t.
I just don’t understand why you can have like. However, many grams of weed or whatever and in jail, go to jail yeah like just fraud. Ah, it’s not a big deal, yeah like what yeah like the like the amount of the amount of money that was at stake in this net neutrality.
Oh yeah, in this net neutrality argument and like what are they gon na overturn it now yeah? This is hilarious lapse. Memory goes. The worst part is that this was known. While it was happening yeah, he specifically blocked any investigation.
Yeah exactly yeah yeah we’ve got people talking about like 650 Grand is less than what some companies will pay for, like a TV advertising spot yeah 100 think about Super Bowl spots, yeah like man, yeah and 600k. Between three companies, like okay yeah, a hunter Lair, is saying in my state anything over an ounce is punishable by up to 20 years, and it’s disgusting yeah 100 like. Why is white collar crime? Just fine, it’s okay! Isn’T Elizabeth Holmes like still not in jail who’s. That uh, the um theranos, oh really she’s, not I thought she was – has avoided starting her more than 11 year prison sentence on Thursday by deploying the same legal maneuver that enabled her co-conspirator in the blood testing hoax to remain free for an additional month. Okay, because that would be an option if you had. You know an ounce of weed in your bag. .