The FCC Cited Zero of the 22 Million Consumer Comments in its 218-Page Net Neutrality Repeal

The FCC Cited Zero of the 22 Million Consumer Comments in its 218-Page Net Neutrality Repeal

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Roughly 22 million people submitted comments during the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulatory proceedings. Though there was widespread fraud in the process (many dead people filed anti-net-neutrality comments), the vast majority of them favored the rules that protected the free and open internet. Thursday, the FCC released its final rule repealing these protections: A grand total of zero consumer comments were cited.

This isn’t a huge surprise considering that late last year the FCC said it would only consider comments that made “serious legal arguments,” but it’s worth considering that most organizations capable of making the type of argument that the FCC considered are telecom companies themselves.

The FCC Cited Zero of the 22 Million Consumer Comments in its 218-Page Net Neutrality Repeal

Jan 5, 2018, 1:24am UTC
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev5b3k/net-neutrality-fcc-zero-consumer-comments-cited >Roughly 22 million people submitted comments during the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulatory proceedings. Though there was widespread fraud in the process (many dead people filed anti-net-neutrality comments), the vast majority of them favored the rules that protected the free and open internet. Thursday, the FCC released its final rule repealing these protections: A grand total of zero consumer comments were cited. >This isn’t a huge surprise considering that late last year the FCC said it would only consider comments that made “serious legal arguments,” but it’s worth considering that most organizations capable of making the type of argument that the FCC considered are telecom companies themselves.