There's an allegation going around that Comcast used the names and addresses of some of their customers (and in some cases, non-customers) in order to submit anti-net neutrality comments to the FCC during the net neutrality comment period.
There's currently a website,
Operation Comcastroturf, that is trying to blow the whistle on this issue, with a search bar that allows you to look up your name to see if it's being used.
If Comcast made a fake submission, it reads as such:
Another example of it:
Comcast has also sent a
cease and desist order to comcastastroturf.com, citing that it is "violating Comcast’s valuable intellectual property rights,” and concludes: “Please … take all steps necessary to see that the Domain name is assigned to Comcast."
I personally didn't find anything under my name, but someone sharing my roommate's name popped up with the above quoted fake message.
If this is Comcast, it's a pretty clear indicator as to why regulations are necessary, and why corporations cannot be trusted to do the right thing. If this was Comcast, and even if it came out in full view of the public, they're so large and have such a stranglehold on their service areas that there wouldn't be any free market lash-back.
What I'm really curious about is how wide-spread this is. Any of you fellow US-based MMO-C'ers have your name pop up with a fake FCC comment? What are your thoughts on this?