More than 95 percent of public comments on a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the privacy practices of broadband providers have been critical of that idea, according to a report issued Wednesday.
The figures were provided by “Protect Internet Freedom,” a nonprofit group that established an online platform for users to submit feedback to the FCC. “A total of 259,539 opposition comments were filed against the [rules], an overwhelming majority of the 271,669 total comments filed in the docket as the commenting deadline nears,” the group said in a press release.
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