first published week of: 07/21/2014
The Federal Communications Commission has extended today's deadline for filing comments on its controversial Net neutrality proposal due to a last-minute wave of traffic that's crashing its site for some.
"The deadline for filing submissions as part of the first round of public comments in the FCC's Open Internet proceeding arrived today," said FCC spokeswoman Kim Hart. "Not surprisingly, we have seen an overwhelming surge in traffic on our website that is making it difficult for many people to file comments through our Electronic Comment Filing System."
"Please be assured that the commission is aware of these issues and is committed to making sure that everyone trying to submit comments will have their views entered into the record," Hart said, adding that the new deadline for submitting comments is midnight Friday. continued…