John Oliver calls for viewers to ‘go FCC yourself’

Oops, John Oliver did it again.

In Sunday’s part of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver revisited a emanate of net neutrality amid threats of rollbacks.

The horde speedy his viewers to revisit a FCC site and leave comments in preference of clever net neutrality rules. And to make it easier, he offering a by-pass to a commission’s criticism form by a domain www.gofccyourself.com.

“I’m job on all of we — a internet, time wasters and troublemakers — to join me once some-more in only 5 to 10 mins of teenager efforts,” he pronounced on his show. “I need we to do this. Once some-more unto a breach, my friends.”

Oliver’s stab during net neutrality in 2014 gave a late-night horde his initial viral impulse and determined a romantic comedy tinge of his show.

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Last month, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai suggested skeleton to break Obama-era net neutrality rules that prevented internet use providers from bearing certain sites by intentionally speeding or negligence down user access. (Appointed by Trump, Pai formerly worked during Verizon as a lawyer.)

“America needs we to arise — or some-more accurately, sojourn seated in front of your mechanism shade — to this occasion,” Oliver resolved Sunday’s show. “So please, fly my pretties, fly once more!”

Coincidentally, a FCC suffered a DDoS conflict Sunday night that caused a criticism complement to crash.

“These actors were not attempting to record comments themselves; rather they done it formidable for legitimate commenters to entrance and record with a FCC,” CIO David Bray pronounced in a statement.

It was not immediately transparent either a DDoS conflict was associated to Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight” episode. An FCC orator pronounced a elect did not know a ground behind a conflict and denied to criticism on Oliver’s segment.

After “Last Week Tonight” aired a initial net neutrality square scarcely 3 years ago, a FCC site crashed when it was flooded with 4 million comments.

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