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Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1323750" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://bgr.com/2014/05/09/fcc-net-neutrality-controversy/" target="_blank"><strong>The FCC can’t handle all the net neutrality calls it’s getting, urges people to write emails instead - BGR</strong></a></p><p></p><p>The Federal Communications Commission would rather read your thoughts about net neutrality than hear about them. Columbia Law School professor and leading net neutrality activist <a href="https://twitter.com/superwuster/status/464838976390848513" target="_blank">Tim Wu points</a> out that calling the <a href="http://bgr.com/tag/fcc" target="_blank">FCC’s</a> main consumer hotline will give you a message that asks you to write an email to the commission if you’re calling about FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s controversial net neutrality plans. This seemingly indicates that either the FCC is being flooded with calls about <a href="http://bgr.com/tag/net-neutrality" target="_blank">net neutrality</a> that its operators can’t handle them all or it just is tired of hearing everyone call about net neutrality and would like to see them send emails instead. Either way, it looks as though people are speaking up about the issue.</p><p></p><p>If you call FCC&#39;s main consumer number, it immediately says "if you are calling about the Open Internet, write an email" (1-888-225-5322) Tim Wu (@superwuster) [MEDIA=twitter]464838976390848513[/MEDIA] 9, 2014</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1323750, member: 1"] [URL='http://bgr.com/2014/05/09/fcc-net-neutrality-controversy/'][B]The FCC can’t handle all the net neutrality calls it’s getting, urges people to write emails instead - BGR[/B][/URL] The Federal Communications Commission would rather read your thoughts about net neutrality than hear about them. Columbia Law School professor and leading net neutrality activist [URL='https://twitter.com/superwuster/status/464838976390848513']Tim Wu points[/URL] out that calling the [URL='http://bgr.com/tag/fcc']FCC’s[/URL] main consumer hotline will give you a message that asks you to write an email to the commission if you’re calling about FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s controversial net neutrality plans. This seemingly indicates that either the FCC is being flooded with calls about [URL='http://bgr.com/tag/net-neutrality']net neutrality[/URL] that its operators can’t handle them all or it just is tired of hearing everyone call about net neutrality and would like to see them send emails instead. Either way, it looks as though people are speaking up about the issue. If you call FCC's main consumer number, it immediately says "if you are calling about the Open Internet, write an email" (1-888-225-5322) Tim Wu (@superwuster) [MEDIA=twitter]464838976390848513[/MEDIA] 9, 2014 [/QUOTE]
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