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Perhaps the FCC can get a deal on better and higher QoS for their service if they allow the shitbags to get to work on sodomizing the internet?
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Help me here. The FCC has a website for public comments on matters of public importance and after 1000 comments in a single day it crashes? I am guessing they thought no one would comment because we were too busy refreshing our Netflix and Amazon shows.
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So they crashed a website. Wow. THAT’S sure never happened before.
Now they can get back to slamming Oliver and eating microwaved burritos.
The FCC website crashed? Maybe the Republicans will want to “repeal and replace” the FCC?
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Actually, this is going to be like the telemarketer fury. Remember that a couple of years ago? There was so much response the website crashed. Then there is a website where you can enter complaints about telemarketers who annoy the hell out of you.
A couple of years later…they’re back. So far their favorite dodge is to tell you immediately that this is not a sales call. The other memo from Satan’s Suggestion Box is that they ask for a political contribution cause they were exempted from prosecution. Now I just huddle behind my caller ID like the old days. If it’s an unfamiliar telephone prefix or a blocked ID, I don’t answer…
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Why not? They are expert at doing nothing.
Seeing that bit about Obama appointing a cable company lobbyist to oversee the cable company lobbyists reaffirms my disappointment in him. There are some battles he can’t fight, but he doesn’t have to ACTIVELY perpetuate the lobbyist/govt revolving door.
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If it 'twere snark? I’d laugh.
Pitibly? It’s not.
jw1
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Makes me wonder how many comments TPM gets a day. There have been days where I have posted over 50 comments throughout the site.
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For a long time (over a decade), I have read a web site that often crashed web sites. The site would publish a short blurb with a link. End result, crashed web site as thousands of curious geeks clicked the link to read the article.
The started calling it the slashdot effect. I think they even crashed CNN a couple of times.
So it is the FCC’s turn to get overloaded, sounds good to me 
I got so tired of the “auto warranty” people calling me on my cell phone, I started answering it and asking if they really could get me a warranty on my 1985 Yugo with 300,000 miles.
They started hanging up on ME. The nerve!
he he he - it was fun!
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Need to update your story. The site had over 47,000 comments when I finally made it through. And it’s Tuesday - two days after John Oliver made his call - and the site is STILL struggling.
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And if Republicans did repeal and replace the FCC, what an awesome tool for screwing Americans that replacement would be.
I get lots of calls from people selling some service related to my mortgage or credit card.
I just ask them to wait a moment, put them on hold, and forget about them.
It would have been refreshing if Obama had appointed some highly-respected academic with expertise on the internet and electronic communications; somebody with a real understanding of the nuts and bolts, and no big-money backer lurking behind him.
I have a horrible confession to make. When I accidentally pick up on a telemarketer call for myself, I always try to sound like I’m extremely old and hard of hearing. I tell them “oh, he’s out in the fields, let me go call him in.” Then I leave the phone off the hook and carry on with whatever I’d been doing.
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So yeay for John et trolls & all that rot, but I still don’t get why disrupting the operations of a federal agency that’d be perfectly happy to get out of the way of megamedia taking over the Internet helps the (admirable & even vital) goal of preserving net neutrality.
And as funny as John is, I’m betting he can’t explain it to me, OTHER than in attracting public interest to a public interest issue.
Anywho, ergo ipso irridiculo factotum up yer residio colonoscopium, John.
They can crash any website they want. Oliver, along with every single one of us, can rail and bash this decision. Our government does not care. They are owned, on both sides of the aisle, by the cable companies and they will do their bidding regardless of public opinion.
We. Do. Not. Matter. To. Them.
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Yeah, my employer was featured prominently in his comments, so I have to watch what I write, but Oliver was pretty funny.
“turn on your caps lock and go!” was my fave.
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