If you need a bit of background on what the Net Neutrality battle is about, you can read the history of this specific battle (which started with a news story based on research I led) that I wrote last week. Or you can watch the video of me explaining and responding to some comments in a far more concise manner.
Last week was the big protest for Net Neutrality, and it was a big success. It came at the tail end of the comments on Net Neutrality. The deadline for initial comments was Monday 17th July 2017, and I (as usual) waited until the last minute to file my comments (waiting until 11pm to do so, after starting writing them at 5pm).
Boom, and submitted to the @fcc #netneutrality pic.twitter.com/s9hpAkiqjC
— K`Tetch (@ktetch) July 18, 2017
As for my submission, it’s now below. Be warned, it’s a bit long and meandering (did I mention I wrote it in <6 hours) although I did cheat a little. Fully half the comment is a copy of the comment I submitted exactly 3 years earlier to the FCC for the last reclassification hearing. That’s because everything I wrote then, is still valid now, and it saved me duplicating things, and meant I could focus on new and different comments and details.
And I have to admit, I couldn’t resist taking a quick dig at chairman Pai and his ‘mug’ obsession. I have my own mugs and don’t think it’s ‘humorous’, and can afford to buy my own, rather than walking around like a corporate sponsored buffoon, so in the ‘about me’ page, I had one of my kids photograph me drinking tea from one of my mugs (again, done in the 6 hour period)