Front page of today's Wall St Journal. For example, a comment to the FCC opposing net neutrality was filed by a woman who died twelve years ago. The Journal mailed queries to the authors of a million comments. 7800 queries bounced back due to bad email addresses. Of the queries that obtained a reply, 72% of the replies denied ever having sent in the comment. Plus, looking at the comments received, the bulk of them are copies of each other.
The conclusion is that most of the comments are generated by 'bots, computer programs that just add false addresses and send the same message over and over again. To the point that for the agency to read these comments and act upon them is folly.
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