FCC Website Experiences Outage After Section 230 Announcement

The FCC’s website was down for about an hour Thursday starting soon after the 2:30 p.m. EDT release of Chairman Ajit Pai’s announcement of action to come on Communications Decency Act Section 230 (see 2010150057). Multiple users, including FCC officials, said they received only an error message when going to FCC.gov. The message said “an unexpected error had occurred." By 4:30 p.m., the site appeared to be restored. The FCC didn’t comment.