Current Events > Since the FCC lied to Congress about the "DDoS attacks" last year...

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Who goes to jail for that?
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Probably no one because Republicans are in power.

"we investigated ourselves and concluded that we did nothing wrong"
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Most of our politicians need to be locked up at this point, but that would just destroy our government.

KnightofShikari posted...

"we investigated ourselves and concluded that we did nothing wrong"

Pretty much. Thats also why dirty cops are almost never found guilty of any offenses. What a system
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KnightofShikari posted...G

"we investigated ourselves and concluded that we did nothing wrong"

Pretty much. Thats also why dirty cops are almost never found guilty of any offenses. What a system
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BWLurker posted...

Probably no one because Republicans are in power.

Rexdragon125 posted...

Most of our politicians need to be locked up at this point, but that would just destroy our government.

Nah, the various governments would just issue replacements until special elections can be held.
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ArchiePeck posted...

BWLurker posted...

Probably no one because Republicans are in power.

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What happened?
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King_Hellebuyck posted...

What happened?

The FCC's comment system on the repeal of Net Neutrality went down after John Oliver streamlined the purposefully convoluted system meant to suppress criticism, which FCC officials blamed on a non-existent DDoS attack.

https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-internal-report-proving-the-fcc-made-up-a-cyb-1828166991

An investigation by the Federal Communication Commissions own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack was responsible for disrupting the FCCs comment system in May 2017, at the height of the agencys efforts to kill off net neutrality.

The investigation also uncovered that the FCC provided false information to members of Congress regarding advice provided (or not provided) by FBI to the FCC after the incident.

A report from the inspector generals office (OIG) released Tuesday finds that the comment system issues were not caused by a cyberattack, as the FCC has alleged for over a year, but more likely by a combination of system design issues and a massive surge in legitimate traffic, which came after Last Week Tonight host John Oliver told millions of TV viewers to flood the FCCs website with pro-net neutrality comments.

Asked how the FCC responded to the incident, the contractor said: The FCC did not respond to the event internally in a manner consistent with the severity of the event as stated in the press release.

They added:

FCC Management was aware The Last Week Tonight with John Oliver program was considering an episode on the Net Neutrality proceeding but did not share that information with the CIO or IT group.

Seems they purposefully wanted to make sure the system couldn't handle the traffic they knew was coming.
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Wow I forgot all about that and didnt realize how fucked up it was
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