<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head><body><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">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><div class="ox-bf0550d96c-gmail_extra" style="display: block;"><br><div class="ox-bf0550d96c-gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 2:38 PM, RICHARD BARTH <<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><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" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr/>com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/<wbr/>11/24/fcc-net-neutrality-<wbr/>process-corrupted-by-fake-<wbr/>comments-and-vanishing-<wbr/>consumer-complaints-officials-<wbr/>say/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-<wbr/>main_fcc-145pm%3Ahomepage%<wbr/>2Fstory&utm_term=.800d42aec2d7</a></p></div>On November 29, 2017 at 2:25 PM Patrick Gray <patgperiod@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div></div></div><br></blockquote></body></html>