This last Sunday night, John Oliver gave us a rare example of pop news covering net neutrality, the associated monopolization, revolving door government appointments and the strong-arming of Netflix.
From The Week:
On Sunday night's Last Week Tonight, Oliver tackled net neutrality, the idea that all legal content on the internet should be served up to your house on a level playing field. The Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules that would allow a two-tiered system. Oliver, like most net neutrality proponents, isn't impressed: "The point is, the internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that."
(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday June 03 2014, @11:16AM
There are actually almost 65,000 comments. The 47,000 are just what was filed in the last 30 days.
I noticed that I can't find ANY filings now on the www.fcc.gov/comments page this morning. Kind of odd, they must be having a server issue ;)
In case anyone is trying to find it, here's a Direct link to the comments for the 14-28 proceeding [fcc.gov]
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 1) by ankh on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:35AM
> Direct link to the comments for the 14-28 proceeding [fcc.gov]
Thanks! It's ... um .... can we still say 'slashdotted' nowadays? Connecting ....
I wonder if it's any slower for people who are customers of the crap merchants; wanta bet they're discouraging comments?
http://www.truthdig.com/images/made/images/cartoonuploads/netneutered_400_323.jpg [truthdig.com]