Comedian John Oliver’s 13-minute attack on the FCC’s...

Comedian John Oliver’s 13-minute attack on the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules Sunday night was apparently enough to crash agency’s Electronic Comment Filing System Monday (CD June 3 p5). ECFS went down several times Monday. An FCC official said Tuesday the agency encountered technical difficulties Monday “due to heavy traffic,” but the site was up and running Tuesday. Oliver called on Internet “monsters” to let the FCC have it, during his HBO weekly program, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. FCC officially logged 1,506 comments Monday, many of them texts. “It’s sad that in the United States today, ISPs can buy the political influence necessary to usurp the will of the people,” one said. A second called the proposal “obviously just a way for rich cable CEO’s [sic] to blackmail people into paying more money.”