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]
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