Despite demand from reporters and several Legislators, the FCC is just declining to publish any data rendering the presence of the attack, happening in many media terminals not so subtly suggesting that the agency was lying:
“The FCC’s unwillingness to provide records of any real importance reflects demand from the agency’s higher echelon to restrict the exposure of data about the event to a some of carefully crafted public records…It would be difficult for a state agency to do further to give off the opinion that it was involved in a cover up. That’s troubling given the increase of questions covering the FCC’s integrity.
As we remarked last week, there are actually only two choices here. One, the FCC was charged coincidentally at the corresponding time John Oliver’s show aired, it just left to do any meaningful reported study of the attack, and has zero benefits in being honest about it. Two, the FCC made up the attack simply to try to decrease all the talk about the “John Oliver effect” in the press, a misguided addition of the agency’s apparent desire to downplay the large public opposition to Pai’s proposal to kill net neutrality.
Based on the FCC’s other new ways in regards to overlooking explanation fraud to this same purpose, it’s reasonably clear the latter is a very real chance. But with the FCC protesting to comply with FOIA questions, it’s going to catch some notable external pressure to get to the truth. That’s not working to be easy given that notwithstanding broad bipartisan backing for the rules, ISPs have strongly convinced the public this is a biased issue, which helps them still significant discourse by bogging the entire method down in reasonable-optional partisan patty cake.
Under the confusion of this dysfunction, Senator Ron Wyden was keen to highlight at the conference that the FCC doesn’t look particularly suitable here despite your political leaning:
“Senator Ron Wyden…stated in an email to News that the agency’s answer to News FOIA question raised “legitimate issues about whether the bureau is being truthful when it requires a DDoS attack hurt its commenting system offline.”
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