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.
“Despite the millions of comments, letters, and calls received, this Order cites, not even one consumer comment.
"Typically, there are a score or so of lengthy comments that include extensive data, analysis, and arguments.
But the 2014 net neutrality proceedings were not typical: The sheer ferocity and quantity of public backlash led the FCC to reverse course and protect net neutrality.
But the current Republican-led FCC could not be swayed, and so we are left with a regulation that was written by large companies, for large companies. »