#Internetslowdown: FCC receives record-breaking 1.75M comments on Net Neutrality

It's the largest number of comments ever filed in an FCC docket, blowing past the 1.4M comments received on Janet Jackson's Superbowl "wardrobe malfunction" (and how f-ed up is it that wardrobe malfunction held the top place until now?).

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According to Fight for the Future, one of the principal organizers of the protest, their protest site, combined with efforts with Tumblr, dropped for a whopping 728,096 comments to the Federal Communications Commission, practically all of them from Wednesday, when the protest went live.

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The protest garnered more than 300,000 phone calls to the FCC, by FFTF's most current count.

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More than 10,000 sites ended up displaying the Internet slowdown widget or banner, including heavy-hitters like Reddit, Foursquare, Vimeo, Netflix, and PornHub.

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One Facebook explanation of the protest was shared over 1 million times.

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Google included its own net neutrality page, too, breaking a years-long silence on the topic, and posted a "take action" message. The Internet giant declined to share exact figures, but told the Daily Dot that "thousands of people" signed up for their Take Action list.

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Yes, of course, the protesters did briefly crash the FCC website.

Net neutrality just broke the FCC's all-time commenting record [Kevin Collier/Daily Dot]