The Daily Populous

Thursday November 30th, 2017 morning edition

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A study has found more than 7.75 million comments were submitted from email domains attributed to FakeMailGenerator.com, and they had nearly identical wording.

The FCC says some of the nearly 23 million comments on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to gut Obama-era rules were filed under the same name more than 90 times each.

And then there were the 444,938 from Russian email addresses, which also raised eyebrows, even though it’s unclear if they were from actual Russian citizens or computer bots originating in the U.S. or elsewhere.

Hart said in an email that there had been “concerning activity” regarding public comments on both sides of the issue.

Many submissions seemed to include false or misleading personal information, with 57 percent of comments analyzed using temporary or duplicate email addresses, the Pew Research Center said in a study published Wednesday.

“There’s something not right in the @FCC record,” FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, said in a Nov. 22 tweet that cited “bots, bogus comments, stolen names.”.

Another set of 1.4 million took the opposite view, saying "I strongly urge the FCC to repeal" the rules. »

DMX Has Released an Official Cover of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"

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Over the last month or so Christmas has been drip-fed to us: a themed coffee here; a well-placed advert there.

This includes DMX covering "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", which first became a thing when he was on radio station Power 105.1 in 2012:.

), DMX is basically the highlight – though what a highlight it is – but there are some nice tracks from Lalah Hathaway and Wolf Alice too. »

Wisconsin DNR sold 10 hunting licenses to infants

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The state Department of Natural Resources sold 10 hunting licenses to infants after Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill that eliminated the state's minimum hunting age.

Walker signed a Republican bill on Nov. 13 doing away with the 10-year-old minimum age to participate in a mentored hunt.

The DNR released data Tuesday that shows the agency had sold 1,814 mentored hunt licenses to children age nine or younger through Sunday. »

Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal

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But a further examination of how Comcast's net neutrality promises have changed over time reveals another interesting tidbit—Comcast deleted a "no paid prioritization" pledge from its net neutrality webpage on the very same day that the Federal Communications Commission announced its initial plan to repeal net neutrality rules.

Further Reading Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal.

It was on April 26 that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced the first version of his plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. »

US teen birth rate drops to all-time low

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In 2016, the teen birth rate dropped 9 percent compared to the previous year, a new government report published Friday found.

For women between the ages of 30 and 34, the birth rate increased by 1 percent over 2015 — the highest rate for this age group since 1964.

The birth rate for women who are between 35 and 39 is up 2 percent over 2015, representing the highest rate since 1962. »