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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2860684" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15682240/fcc-net-neutrality-proposal-sees-few-changes" target="_blank"><strong>2.6 million comments in, the FCC has changed almost nothing about its net neutrality proposal - The Verge</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Since taking over the FCC earlier this year, commission chairman Ajit Pai has released the text of most proposals a month before they’re voted on. This is done <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14688214/fcc-transparency-ajit-pai" target="_blank">in the name of transparency</a>, so the public knows what the commission is up to. But it’s also done so that the commission can begin receiving comments and factor them in to the revised version of each proposal that it ends up voting on.</p><p></p><p>This is the same process that happened with the commission’s proposal to kill the 2015 net neutrality rules. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/27/15456472/fcc-reveals-net-neutrality-killing-proposal" target="_blank">An initial draft was published last month</a>, and yesterday <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681434/net-neutrality-how-to-comment-fcc-proposal-released" target="_blank">we got to see the revised draft</a> that <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/18/15657916/fcc-kill-net-neutrality-proposal-vote-passes" target="_blank">ended up being voted on</a>. In between, there were plenty of comments made for the FCC to look at: 2.6 million as of today. (Though tens of thousands <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities" target="_blank">appear to be fake</a>.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2860684, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15682240/fcc-net-neutrality-proposal-sees-few-changes'][B]2.6 million comments in, the FCC has changed almost nothing about its net neutrality proposal - The Verge[/B][/URL] Since taking over the FCC earlier this year, commission chairman Ajit Pai has released the text of most proposals a month before they’re voted on. This is done [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14688214/fcc-transparency-ajit-pai']in the name of transparency[/URL], so the public knows what the commission is up to. But it’s also done so that the commission can begin receiving comments and factor them in to the revised version of each proposal that it ends up voting on. This is the same process that happened with the commission’s proposal to kill the 2015 net neutrality rules. [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/27/15456472/fcc-reveals-net-neutrality-killing-proposal']An initial draft was published last month[/URL], and yesterday [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681434/net-neutrality-how-to-comment-fcc-proposal-released']we got to see the revised draft[/URL] that [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/18/15657916/fcc-kill-net-neutrality-proposal-vote-passes']ended up being voted on[/URL]. In between, there were plenty of comments made for the FCC to look at: 2.6 million as of today. (Though tens of thousands [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities']appear to be fake[/URL].) [/QUOTE]
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