FCC Couldn’t Handle the Influx of Net Neutrality Comments

ICYMI: Pandora’s box crashed the FCC website Tuesday.

The FCC said Tuesday would be the last day for public comments about the controversial Internet proposal: net neutrality. The proposal would allow Internet providers to charge content companies extra fees to deliver faster content to consumers.

John Oliver comically said the only things more boring than net neutrality would feature Sting, but it seems that Americans do, in fact, care about net neutrality.

Over 100,000 of the 780,000 comments submitted to the FCC came in on Tuesday alone, while Google, Facebook, Neflix, Amazon and other giant tech companies filed complaints on Monday. The FCC’s outdated comment filing system couldn’t handle the influx of net neutrality comments and the system consequently crashed, forcing the FCC to extend the deadline for comments until midnight Friday.

Have you filed your comment yet? As web-lovers, Internet freedom is pretty important to us at Pyxl. What do you think about the net neutrality battle?

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Updated: Apr 13, 2022