Check yourself (or at least, your name)
Dec. 1st, 2017 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2kbYI8O:
lauraannegilman:
The Office of the New York State Attorney General is investigating whether public comments regarding net neutrality rules wrongfully used New Yorkers’ identities without their consent. We encourage you to search the FCC’s public comment website and tell us if you see any comments that misuse your name and address.
First, search to find any comments that may have misused your identity.
If results appear, click on any comment that uses your name, and when the comment appears review the name, the address, and the comment text. (If no results appear, your identity most likely was not misused.)
The search will open a new tab, so make sure to click back to this page if you find a comment submitted without your consent.
oh jesus christ i have such a common name that there are eight pages of results. 237 hits.
I don’t know where to start, kids.
But if your name is uncommon, please do this. I’ll… have a few drinks and then work on finding out if any of these is me.
A lot of them are form letters that are in favor of neutrality, though, in big batches like they went viral. If I can eliminate the pro-neutrality ones, which are likely genuine, then that makes this search much easier.
But, Christ almighty, I hadn’t realized how common my name is. I mean, I knew it was, but, Yikes™.
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lauraannegilman:
The Office of the New York State Attorney General is investigating whether public comments regarding net neutrality rules wrongfully used New Yorkers’ identities without their consent. We encourage you to search the FCC’s public comment website and tell us if you see any comments that misuse your name and address.
First, search to find any comments that may have misused your identity.
If results appear, click on any comment that uses your name, and when the comment appears review the name, the address, and the comment text. (If no results appear, your identity most likely was not misused.)
The search will open a new tab, so make sure to click back to this page if you find a comment submitted without your consent.
oh jesus christ i have such a common name that there are eight pages of results. 237 hits.
I don’t know where to start, kids.
But if your name is uncommon, please do this. I’ll… have a few drinks and then work on finding out if any of these is me.
A lot of them are form letters that are in favor of neutrality, though, in big batches like they went viral. If I can eliminate the pro-neutrality ones, which are likely genuine, then that makes this search much easier.
But, Christ almighty, I hadn’t realized how common my name is. I mean, I knew it was, but, Yikes™.
(Your picture was not posted)
