The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a press release (PDF) claiming that it’s website was hit with a DDoS attack at the exact same time that comments started flooding in due to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment about net neutrality on Sunday night.
The new Chair of the FCC Ajit Pai is not a supporter of Title II Net Neutrality,
Some such as, Fight for the Future who runs BattleForTheNet.com, have questioned if there was an attack. Even you take the FCC at face vale and there was an if there was an attack, they wan the FCC to immediately release its logs to an independent security analyst and/or major news outlet to verify exactly what happened last night.
“The public deserves to know, and the FCC has a responsibility to maintain a functioning website and ensure that every member of the public who wants to submit a comment about net neutrality has the ability to do so. Anything less is a subversion of our democracy” – Evan Greer, Fight for the Future.
