An FCC docket on “Protecting and Promoting the...

An FCC docket on “Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet” has been flooded with comments since it was opened by Chairman Tom Wheeler last month (CD Feb 20 p1). As of Tuesday, the FCC had logged 9,341, many of which appeared to have been submitted as text messages. Most offered the same one-sentence of advice: “Reclassify Internet Service Providers As Common Carriers.” Some elaborated. For example, one signed by “Harold Kelley” said, “It is NOT right for BIG TELECOM companies to be allowed to discriminate in any way whatsoever in the manner in how they carry and or transmit Internet Traffic.” (http://bit.ly/1n8lSDP)