{"id":87534,"date":"2017-12-18T03:25:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T08:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87534"},"modified":"2017-12-17T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T00:27:17","slug":"schneiderman-i-will-sue-to-stop-illegal-rollback-of-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87534","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman: I will sue to stop illegal rollback of Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A.G. Schneiderman Will Lead Multistate Lawsuit<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

AG\u2019s Investigation into 2 Million Comments that Stole Real Americans\u2019 Identities Also Continues\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Click Here for Video of AG Schneiderman Discussing the Vote and His Intent to Sue<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Today, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement upon the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s vote, announcing that he will lead a multistate lawsuit to stop the rollback of net neutrality:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FCC\u2019s vote to rip apart net neutrality is a blow to New York consumers, and to everyone who cares about a free and open internet. The FCC just gave Big Telecom\u00a0an early Christmas present, by giving internet service providers yet another way to put corporate profits over consumers. Today\u2019s rollback will give ISPs new ways\u00a0to control what we see, what we do, and what we say online. That\u2019s a threat to the free exchange of ideas that\u2019s made the Internet a valuable asset in our democratic process.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s new rule would enable ISPs to<\/em>\u00a0charge consumers more to access sites like Facebook and Twitter and give\u00a0them the leverage to degrade the high quality of video streaming until and unless somebody pays them more money. Even worse, today\u2019s vote would enable ISPs to favor certain viewpoints over others.<\/em><\/p>\n

New Yorkers deserve the right to a free and open Internet. That\u2019s why we will sue to stop the FCC\u2019s illegal rollback of net neutrality.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s vote also follows a public comment process that was deeply corrupted, including two million comments that stole the identities of real people. This is a crime under New York law \u2013 and the FCC\u2019s decision to go ahead with the vote makes a mockery of government integrity and rewards the very perpetrators who scammed the system to advance their own agenda.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not just an attack on the future of our internet. It\u2019s an attack on all New Yorkers, and on the integrity of every American’s voice in government \u2013 and we will fight back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For seven months, Attorney General Schneiderman has been investigating the flood of fake comments submitted during the net neutrality comment process.\u00a0The Attorney General\u2019s latest analysis shows that two million comments stole the identities of real Americans<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 including over 100,000 comments per state from New York, Florida, Texas, and California. Yet the FCC has repeatedly refused to cooperate with the Attorney General\u2019s investigation, despite widespread evidence that the public comment process was corrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A.G. Schneiderman Will Lead Multistate Lawsuit AG\u2019s Investigation into 2 Million Comments that Stole Real Americans\u2019 Identities Also Continues\u00a0\u00a0 Click Here for Video of AG Schneiderman Discussing the Vote and His Intent to Sue Today, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement upon the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s vote, announcing that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mLQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?fit=260%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}