Call to arms by comedian John Oliver breaks FCC site (Video)

Comedian John Oliver delivers a 13 minute call to arms for trolls to inundate the FCC website on his HBO show, 'Last Week Tonight' - Oliver said, "This is the moment you were made for, commenters. Like Ralph Macchio, you've been honing your skills, waxing cars, and painting fences. Well guess what, now it's time to do some f*@!ing karate... We need you to get out there and for once in your lives focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction. Seize your moment, my lovely trolls, turn on caps lock, and fly my pretties! Fly! Fly! Fly!"

Oliver was successful in his rally cry; approximately 47,000 Net Neutrality comments were posted to FCC site. In turn, the FCC Twitter account posted this Tweet: "We’ve been experiencing technical difficulties with our comment system due to heavy traffic. We’re working to resolve these issues quickly."

According to ArsTechnica, the comments site (fcc.gov/comments) seems to be back in working order this morning. The net neutrality proceeding has received more than 47,000 comments. Bray and an FCC spokesperson contacted by Ars said it isn't clear whether the website's problem was caused by John Oliver's call for comments, but the spokesperson said, "it was down for a couple of hours yesterday due to high volumes of traffic."


Some NSFW language.

The FCC is also accepting comments via e-mail at openinternet@fcc.gov. Initial comments are being accepted until July 15 and reply comments will be accepted until September 10.