Was Net Neutrality comments line ATTACKED or simply overwhelmed??

[annabanana]

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2017/08/dems-want-proof-fcc-net-neutrality-page-was-actually-attacked/140329/?oref=govexec_today_nl

DEMS WANT PROOF FCC NET NEUTRALITY PAGE WAS ACTUALLY ATTACKED

Two Democratic lawmakers want a government watchdog to investigate the Federal Communications Commission’s claim that malicious hackers forced it offline in May.

FCC officials attributed the blackout of a site collecting comments about a net neutrality proposal to malicious hackers who overloaded the site with requests—what’s known as a distributed denial-of-service attack.

Some skeptics, though, say the outage was caused by a flood of legitimate commenters who want to retain Obama-era rules that prohibit internet service providers from giving preferential treatment to particular sites.

I think they just want an excuse to take the internet away from, you know, actual, regular people whose ONLY power is in their NUMBER!

[CousinIT]

1. Before corprat dickhead Pai ends net neutrality they should be FORCED to have ANOTHER comment period

Same or longer than the original comment period. That sonofabitch should NOT legally be allowed to VOID millions upon millions of public comments supporting net neutrality just to help his corprat telcom friends.

BULLSHIT.

[annabanana]

2. Kicking because this is EXACTLY the kind of thing that could be snuck through

when people are distracted by shiny objects.