Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Tom Wheeler: Tom.Wheeler@fcc.gov
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn: Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov
Commissioner Ajit Pai: Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
Commissioner Michael O’Rielly: Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov

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Dear Federal Communications Commission:

Please do not reclassify the internet to telecommunications. The internet is firstly an information service and the good it is doing must be allowed to continue unencumbered.

The internet, in its current classification, is the greatestequalizer of scientific, social, business, and cultural information and knowledge of all time. As the internet exists today it is the greatest man made
worldwide equalizer of humanity on the earth. It is a source of freedom through knowledge and education.

The wisdom of the FCC is being tested by the temptation to nudge this phenomenon into failure by strangling it under the guise of business regulation. By reclassifying theinternet to manage its lesser telecommunications aspects the commercialization of the internet will be complete; and humanity will lose this source of equalization and freedom.

The internet, classified as an information service, is the greatest information service of all time. Government intrusion will harm this source of freedom and personal empowerment.

Respectfully,

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Oh. I just saw it. Will notify the editor to change it. Thank you for spotting it. :)

Headlines are easy to miss when you proofread.

You’re most welcome! And just to be clear, no…this isn’t ISP “throttling” in response to torrents or some such, nor in response to being some Tor-like exit/relay node or user; pay more, broadband gets faster; the firmware in modem will allow stealthing of ports 25, 80, 443 of modem, but only at “custom” options, which then requires you have three arbitrary ports in the “1000” range report closed…so any hacker or botnetter with a record of past-infected PCs can have joy of router ping-back and hope of drilling further into such PC. Again, apparently A-OK with powers that be (of course, I make the PC as firewall ironclad as it can be while keeping all its own ports stealthed). That’s all I can say, thanks again!