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The Stream

Mapping 370,000 comments on US Net Neutrality debate

The US Federal Communications Commission released the comments it solicited on net neutrality. The Stream took a quick look at the data.

The dataset included comments submitted to the FCC by email, the Electronic Comment Filing System, and direct mail. The data covers the FCC’s comment window for the issue of “protecting and Promoting the Open Internet”, which ended on July 18. There were 370,907 comments in total.

The data set is publicly available.

Read more: What is Net Neutrality? (EFF.org)

Mapping 370,504 comments on the open internet

Top 10 cities

  1. New York, 5,712
  2. Chicago, 5,063
  3. Los Angeles, 5,038
  4. San Francisco, 4,954
  5. Portland, 4743
  6. Seattle, 4,653
  7. Austin, 3,763
  8. San Diego, 2,728
  9. Houston, 2,438
  10. Denver, 2,253

​Top 10 states

  1. California, 59,843
  2. New York, 25,819
  3. Texas, 20,494
  4. Florida, 17,825
  5. Washington, 15,630
  6. Illinois, 14,501
  7. Pennsylvannia, 12,962
  8. Massachusetts, 11,633
  9. Oregon, 10,573
  10. New Jersey, 10,417
Published On 11 Aug 2014