I'm not sure what has confused this subthread for the FCC comment submission page, but we've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291757 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: and maybe kill the parent comment to slow things down a little.

I don't know whether or not it is a conspiracy theory but John Oliver's link has not worked in either Chrome or Firefox since he exposed this last night on his show. So, I went at it manually because I have not been able to overcome the blank screen effect and this is important!

Here are the manual steps: 1) Navigate to: http://fcc.gov/ecfs/search-proceedings 2) On the next form, fill Specify Proceeding box with 17-108 3) Search 4) On subsequent page, select: Restoring Internet Freedom 5) Then choose + Express link and complete the comment form

P.S. I cleared my browser cookies first to ensure any cookies dropped by the FCC site weren't inhibiting me.

The search page is now working again. I filled out the Express page but the submit form wouldn't do anything (background 503 error). It took 6 attempts to succeed.

Make sure to keep hitting submit to until you see the success page.

After you hit the redirect, click the "+ Express" button the right to go to the comment page.