<div dir="ltr">Dick,<input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"state":"closed","expirationUnit":"days","disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"expires":false,"isManaged":false},"attachments":{}}"><div><br></div><div>   The Washington Post editor Brian Fung quotes an assertion from the New York Attorney General that thousands of fake comments "may have" been made on the FCC R&O website concerning 'Net Neutrality'. </div><div><br></div><div>Well, if  the New York Attorney General believes there is fraud, he should file formal depositions to the FCC, then he should impanel a Grand Jury in New York Sate and present evidence and not spout hearsay or "may have's" to a Leftist Washington Post "reporter"</div><div><br></div><div>Pat KF4MTV</div><div class="gmail_extra" style="display:block"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:13 PM, RICHARD BARTH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" target="_blank">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>

    
<div><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">AMRAD has always been as much involved with computers as with radio,</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">and the article was primarily concerned not so much with whether net </p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">neutrality is a good idea as with reports that there have  been deliberate</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">efforts to contaminate the rulemaking process via fake comments. </p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Also, it wasn't an editorial. It was a news report.  And as we have seen</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">recently in the R&O (Report and Order) dealing with allocation of the new</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">LF bands, comments submitted in a rulemaking are often taken seriously.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">AMRAD's and George Lemaster's comments were cited in the R&O that</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">gave hams the new bands.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The FCC is not supposed to consider the sheer weight of public</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">opinion, but rather technical considerations that may be brought up in </p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">comments.  However, it is only human to consider whatever is sent in.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">And if a lot of people (or bots) express similar sentiments, they are likely</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">to carry some weight, even if unconsciously, on the parts of Commission</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">decision-makers.  The fact that fraud is afoot is worth knowing.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Anyway, that's why I posted the article. If there is widespread disagreement,</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">I'll drop the point from the reflector.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dick</p><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">Is the "tippys" reflector the correct vehicle in what is unarguably a political editorial?<div><br></div><div>Is this directly about amateur radio, or the pursuit of radio technology?</div><div><br></div><div>Pat KF4MTV</div></span><div class="m_-8894549819237932967ox-bf0550d96c-gmail_extra" style="display:block"><br><div class="m_-8894549819237932967ox-bf0550d96c-gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 2:38 PM, RICHARD BARTH <<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></span><blockquote><u></u><div><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/24/fcc-net-neutrality-process-corrupted-by-fake-comments-and-vanishing-consumer-complaints-officials-say/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_fcc-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.800d42aec2d7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com<wbr>/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/<wbr>24/fcc-net-neutrality-process-<wbr>corrupted-by-fake-comments-<wbr>and-vanishing-consumer-<wbr>complaints-officials-say/?<wbr>hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_<wbr>fcc-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&<wbr>utm_term=.800d42aec2d7</a></p></div>On November 29, 2017 at 2:25 PM Patrick Gray <<a href="mailto:patgperiod@gmail.com" target="_blank">patgperiod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div></div></div><br></blockquote></div>
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