FCC Closes Comments On Net Neutrality – Tells The Internet To F*ck Off (VIDEO)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has closed down comments on their website after a flood of comments regarding the issue of net neutrality. They explained it by saying someone created multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks in order to “slow down” actual site users. Except, actual information security and cybersecurity experts cast numerous doubts on the FCCs claims.

Since then, the FCC claims it needs a period to “reflect” on the comments they’ve gotten, and that’s why public commenting is now closed.

That just sounds nuts! Can’t they just not read the comments for a while? Can’t they build a system to save the comments for later? They’re the FCC!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a website where it will help you write a letter to the FCC and they will make sure the organization actually gets it regardless of the closed comments

From the FCC’s statement on the matter:

“Beginning on Sunday night at midnight, our analysis reveals that the FCC was subject to multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). These were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC’s comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host. These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC. While the comment system remained up and running the entire time, these DDoS events tied up the servers and prevented them from responding to people attempting to submit comments. We have worked with our commercial partners to address this situation and will continue to monitor developments going forward.”

John Oliver reported on the issue last week on Last Week Tonight where he urged people to go to the FCC website and comment in favor of net neutrality.

The FCC Director Ajit Pai gave a speech about net neutrality during which he denied that net neutrality is even in danger. He said:

“Nothing about the Internet was broken in 2015. Nothing about the law had changed. And there wasn’t a rash of Internet service providers blocking customers from accessing the content, applications, or services of their choice.”

He conveniently forgot the time that AT&T forced iPhone users to sign up for more expensive mobile data plans in order to use FaceTime. He also forgot the time that AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile blocked Google Wallet so that users would go to their mobile payment programs. These kinds of things could keep happening if net neutrality rules are taken away from us.

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