Net Slowdowners Say Protest Generated 722,364 FCC Comments

Organizers of the symbolic Internet Slowdown campaign claim that its protest and call for action had generated 722,364 network neutrality comments to the Federal Communications Commission.

The docket already boasted more than a million comments. The official deadline for comments is Sept. 15, though the FCC actually accepts them after. According to organizers, which included Demand Progress, Engine Advocacy, Fight for the Future and the Free Press Action Fund, the campaign also generated over 2 million e-mails to Congress and almost 300,000 phone calls. More than 10,000 Web sites participated, they said, which generally meant posting a copy of a loading icon endlessly trying to load, with a message about Internet fast and slow lanes and a click through to ways to take action by contacting the FCC or Congress.