John Oliver Rallies Viewers to Make Their Voice Heard on Net Neutrality, Crashing FCC Site

And it's not the first time

If you find yourself needing to fight the same battles every few years or so, it helps to have someone as entertaining as John Oliver cheerlead the effort. Who else can spend almost 20 minutes covering the relatively inscrutable topic of net neutrality in such a way that inspires enough people to flood the FCC with comments so as to crash the site–again.

In a segment of this Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver revisited the subject of net neutrality, beginning with a look back on the first time the show tackled the subject in 2014, when the FCC was proposing rules that would have allowed for internet fast lanes, which would have provided organizations the opportunity to pay more for their sites to reach users at higher speeds than other sites.

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