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FCC’s awful website crashes on last day for initial net neutrality comments

If you can get the FCC comment site to work, this is what it looks like.

Today is the last day to file initial comments on the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality proposal, and the FCC's ancient technology is unable to handle the load.

This morning when trying to access the form to submit comments and the list of already submitted comments, I got an error message that said: "could not inspect JDBC autocommit mode." I also got this much longer and more entertaining error message:

The site did load for me a couple of times, but the problems don't appear to be a fluke. In other cases, I just received a blank page, and FCC watchers are reporting trouble too. Here's Tim Karr, senior director of strategy at consumer advocacy group Free Press:

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