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>Do such comments have any effect?

If I understand correctly, the process dictates that the FCC formulate responses to the concerns raised during the public comment stage.

And maybe later, after everything has been ruined, if we're lucky, at the future congressional special committee on FCC commissioner misconduct hearings, Kucinich or someone will rake Wheeler and his buddies over the coals for failing to address those concerns.