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u.s. news Diabierna 7 Mei 2021

Shooting at Idaho middle school injures 3; student captured

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — agencies were on scene. ready to provide whatever
A shooting at an east- support school staffers, stu-
ern Idaho middle school Students were evacuated to a dents and the community
Thursday injured two stu- nearby high school, and par- needs.
dents and a custodian, and ents lined up to be reunited
a male student has been with their children. Community members were
taken into custody, au- rounding up bottles of water
thorities said. Bonneville County sheriff's and packaged snacks to bring
Sgt. Bryan Lovell said the in- to students while they waited
The victims' injuries were vestigation is still underway in hot weather to be reunited
not believed to be life-threat- and no additional informa- with their families. Rebecca
ening, Jefferson County tion was available. He said Noah Casper, mayor of near-
Sheriff Steve Anderson said. the school was still in the by Idaho Falls, said people
process of accounting for and hoping to help by donat-
"Today we had the worst releasing all the students. ing water and snacks should
nightmare a school district bring them to the Upper
could encounter. We had Rigby is a small city about Valley Child Advocacy Cen-
a school shooting here at 95 miles (145 kilometers) ter, rather than going to the
Rigby Middle School," Jef- southwest of Yellowstone school.
ferson School District Super- National Park. Rigby Middle
intendent Chad Martin said. School has about 1,500 stu- The attack appears to be Ida-
"What we know so far is the dents in sixth through eighth ho's second school shooting.
shooter has been apprehend- grades, according to the Na- In 1999, a student at a high
ed. There is no further threat tional Center for Education school in Notus fired a shot-
to the students." Statistics. gun several times. No one
was struck by the gunfire, but
Police were called to the The president of the Idaho one student was injured by
school around 9:15 a.m. Education Association, Layne ricocheting debris from the
Multiple law enforcement McInelly, said the union was first shell.

NY: Broadband cos paid for 8.5M fake net neutrality comments

The Office of the New dustry had sued to stop these "distinct group" of more than commenting process. to the report.
York Attorney General rules during the Obama ad- 1.6 million pro-net neutrality
said in a new report that ministration but lost. comments, many of which The fake comments had Still, the report criticized the
a campaign funded by the used mailing addresses out- high-profile victims. In 2018, broadband industry group's
broadband industry sub- The proceeding generated a side the U.S. two senators, Democrat behavior as "troubling," say-
mitted millions of fake record-breaking number of Jeff Merkley of Oregon and ing the campaign organiz-
comments supporting the comments — more than 22 A broadband industry group, Republican Pat Toomey of ers ignored red flags and hid
2017 repeal of net neutral- million — and nearly 18 mil- called Broadband for Ameri- Pennsylvania, said their iden- the broadband industry's in-
ity. lion were fake, the attorney ca, spent $4.2 million gener- tities were stolen to file fake volvement.
general's office found. It has ating more than 8.5 million comments for the net neu-
The Federal Communica- long been known that the tal- of the fake FCC comments. trality proceeding. "We were The lead generators copied
tions Commission's con- ly included fake comments. Half a million fake letters among those whose identi- names and addresses they
tentious 2017 repeal undid were also sent to Congress. ties were misused to express had already collected and
Obama-era rules that barred One 19-year-old in Cali- viewpoints we do not hold," said those people had agreed
internet service providers fornia submitted more than The goal of the broadband they wrote to the FCC's to join the campaign against
from slowing or blocking 7.7 million pro-net neutral- industry campaign, accord- then-chairman, Pai, asking net neutrality, the report said.
websites and apps or charging ity comments. The attorney ing to internal documents him to investigate the fake One company copied infor-
companies more for faster general's office did not iden- the attorney general's office comments. mation that had been stolen
speeds to consumers. The in- tify the origins of another received, was to make it seem in a data breach and posted
like there was "widespread Many expect the FCC to try online.
grassroots support" for the to reinstate net neutrality
repeal of net neutrality that rules once a third Democratic The attorney general, Leti-
could give the FCC chairman commissioner is appointed. tia James, also announced
at the time, Ajit Pai, "volume The agency is currently split agreements with three of the
and intellectual cover" for the half Democrat and Republi- companies that were respon-
repeal. can, which makes undoing sible for millions of the fake
the repeal unlikely. comments, Fluent Inc., Opt-
The agency is supposed to Intelligence Inc. and React-
use the comments it receives, Broadband for America's 2Media Inc., that require
from industry and public- website says its members in- them to change practices in
industry groups and the pub- clude AT&T and Comcast as future advocacy campaigns
lic, to shape how it makes its well as major trade groups for and pay $4.4 million in fines.
rules. the wireless, cable and tele- The companies did not reply
com industries. to requests for comment.
The FCC did not immedi-
ately answer how or if it has The campaign hired compa- The attorney general's office
changed its commenting nies known as lead genera- and other law enforcement
process, but the acting chair- tors which created the fake agencies are still investigating
woman, Jessica Rosenworcel, comments, but that the at- "other responsible parties,"
said in a prepared statement torney general's office had according to the report.
that "widespread problems not found evidence that the
with the record" of the 2017 broadband companies had AT&T, Comcast and indus-
proceedings "was troubling "direct knowledge of fraud" try trade groups NCTA and
at the time" and the agency and thus they had not violat- USTelecom did not respond
has to learn and improve the ed New York law, according to questions.