FCC releases net neutrality comments in a zipped file, encourges analysis of comments
The FCC is making the nearly 2.5 million net neutrality reply comments it received available in a zipped XML file, Gigi Sohn, Chairman Tom Wheeler’s special counsel for external affairs, wrote in a blog post Wednesday (http://fcc.us/1zkXRmz). The proceeding’s initial…
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comments are also being released in a zipped XML file, she said. Noting that researchers, journalists and others like Quid, Sunlight Foundation and TechCrunch have analyzed the agency's data “so that the public and the FCC itself could discuss and learn from the comments,” Sohn wrote that the agency encourages “those with the requisite technical skills to analyze the raw data and build visualizations or other tools and to share them with the public. This will help the FCC and the public have a more fully formed understanding of the content and source of the reply comments.” In sum, the FCC received 3.9 million comments in the initial and reply rounds.