An investigative reporter filed paperwork accusing the FCC in New York Wednesday evening, accusing the agency of inadequately withholding documents about a May cyber attack that it requires momentarily took down a website used by the public to associate in the net neutrality debate. Definitely, the FCC has been indicted for breaking the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal transparency law that forces the administration to release agency records upon request.
The lawsuit, posted by former Vocativ senior reporter Kevin Collier, was the next to hit the FCC on Wednesday. American Oversight, a constitutional watchdog group, had registered a lawsuit just hours before, accusing the FCC of denying records about Chairman Ajit Pai’s interviews with internet service providers maximum of which support the rollback of Obama-era laws that made it illegal to separate against online content by preventing or slowing traffic to certain websites.
Collier filed two federal accounts applications at the FCC this year asking report about what the bureau claims
what the Bureau claims was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack toward its public comment system on May 7-8, and concerning the agency’s review of astroturfing efforts targeting its public comment website, in other words, fake comments produced in mass which is concerning the agency’s review of astroturfing efforts targeting its public comment website, in other news, fake comments generated in a mass which was meant to emulate those submitted by real Americans.
In reply to a similar request registered by Gizmodo in May, the FCC refused to publish any records of importance concerning the so-called cyber attack that stopped Americans from using the public comment system momentarily after comedian John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, directed his viewers to visit the FCC’s website.
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