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Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC

Posted by samzenpus on from the speak-your-mind dept.

An anonymous reader writes Following Wednesday's Internet Slowdown campaign, the Federal Communications Commission says it has now received a total of 1,750,435 comments on net neutrality, surpassing the approximately 1.4 million complaints it saw after the exposure of Janet Jackson's breast during Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004. Wednesday saw citizens submit more than 700,000 new comments to the FCC, and place more than 300,000 calls to the agency.

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  1. Good by Nogrial · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the FCC can finally do their job.

    1. Re:Good by Chewbacon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The number of corporate dollars will surpass the number of comments. I think the exchange rate of comments to dollars is pretty lopsided. Guess which way it it skews.

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      Chewbacon
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  2. citation by mentil · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was recently found that when the FCC (or some other US federal govt. agency) has a request for comments, they're only compelled to seriously consider the in-depth, intelligent comments.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

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  3. Predicted Response... by BarneyGuarder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your comments give me such a thrill,
    But your comments don't pay my bills!

  4. And the lesson here is... by unitron · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that the only thing that stirs more outrage than a nipple on TV is the chance that one will have to deal with a slow connection when downloading a picture of it.

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    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.