Thank you to the D.C. redditors who braved pouring rain to hand-deliver reddit's FCC comments

thank you to the most amazing group of redditors and defenders of the internet!

Yesterday, the FCC servers had melted down and reddit needed to file our official Comments in support of net neutrality so it could be considered in the initial comment period.

At the same time, reddit along with other major tech companies was meeting in NYC with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. So we don't have any reddit employees close enough in D.C. to hand-deliver them, so we needed your help again.

We put up the call for help in /r/washingtondc and in just a few short hours an impromptu reddit meetup formed outside the FCC building. Many of the redditors took a "long" lunch or just skipped out of work to get there. This was even in the middle of a rainstorm to deliver what was essentially paperwork!

At the last moments, the FCC did extend the comment period but this just illustrates why we can't rely on them to enforce their vague proposal of being the ombudsperson of the internet. We need bright-line rules that protect the current neutrality of the internet.

Thank you for being the most amazing community on the internet. Please, a round of applause to /r/washingtondc and everyone else who told their story for the FCC Comment. This isn't the end of our fight for the internet so stay tuned because we're working on something bigger!