A federal district court sided with the New York Times in its Freedom of Information Act request for records relating to fraudulent entries during the public comment period on net neutrality. The court wrote, “If genuine public comment is drowned out by a fraudulent facsimile, then the notice-and-comment process has failed. Disclosing the requested data in this case informs the public understanding of the operations and activities of government in two ways — at the micro level with regard to the integrity of the FCC’s repeal of the particular net neutrality rules at issue, and at the macro level with regard to the vulnerability of agency rule-making in general.” ( Ars Technica, May 4, 2020, by Jon Brodkin)
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