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Input: Now Playing: Watch this: 'Last Week Tonight' takes on the FCC, crashes its site... 
  
 It wasn't John Oliver's fault after all that the FCC's website suffered major slowdowns overnight Sunday and into Monday. The FCC said the trouble was because of multiple DDoS attacks. 
  
 "Beginning on Sunday night at midnight, our analysis reveals that the FCC was subject to multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks," the Federal Communications Commission said in a statement Monday. "These were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC's comment system." DDoS attacks flood a website with useless traffic, causing it to slow down or crash. 
  
 Last Week Tonight/YouTube screenshot by Anne Dujmovic/CNET 
  
 During his HBO show "Last Week Tonight" on Sunday, host John Oliver encouraged people to go to the agency's website and leave comments about how they feel about the FCC's plan to rewrite net neutrality rules. Initial reports about the FCC site crashing suggested Oliver was directly to blame. 
  
 This isn't the first time the FCC's site has encountered problems following one of Oliver's rants on net neutrality -- the concept that all internet content should be delivered without preference or discrimination. Three years ago, the FCC's online public-comment system stumbled under heavy traffic after Oliver rallied internet's trolls to voice their online support for net neutrality principles that became law under the Obama administration. Ajit Pai, who President Donald Trump appointed chairman of the FCC in January, aims to undo the net neutrality regulations, which has opened the issue up for debate all over again. 
  
 The FCC's statement went on to say: 
  
 "These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC. While the comment system remained up and running the entire time, these DDoS events tied up the servers and prevented them from responding to people attempting to submit comments. We have worked with our commercial partners to address this situation and will continue to monitor developments going forward." ||||| The FCC said that it was subject to “multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks” starting on Sunday night, hours after John Oliver called on viewers of his HBO series “Last Week Tonight” to file comments to urge the agency to preserve current net neutrality rules. 
  
 “These were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC’s comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host,” said David Bray, the FCC’s chief information officer. “These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC.” 
  
 He said that the attacks began at midnight. He did not say whether the attacks were in any way related to Oliver’s segment. An FCC spokesman, Mark Wigfield, said that the attacks ended about 8:45 a.m. this morning. 
  
 Oliver urged viewers to go to the FCC’s website to file comments, just as he did in 2014, when the FCC was deliberating its latest version of net neutrality rules. 
  
 Bray said that the comment system “remained up and running the entire time,” but that the attacks “tied up the servers and prevented them from responding to people attempting to submit comments.” 
  
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 “We have worked with our commercial partners to address this situation and will continue to monitor developments going forward,” he said. 
  
 So far, there have been more than 100,000 filings on net neutrality since Sunday, the bulk of them since Oliver’s show, according to a reading of the FCC file. Oliver announced on the air that they had secured a URL — gofccyourself.com — to make it easier for users to find the proceeding and comment page. 
  
 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed repealing the FCC’s reclassification of internet service as a “Title II” common carrier. That was the regulatory maneuver the agency took in 2015 to impose a robust set of net neutrality rules. 
  
 Critics of Pai’s proposal say it would weaken the rules and diminish the agency’s authority. 
  
 Fight for the Future, a group that pushed for the 2015 net neutrality rules and is defending them now, said that the incident raises questions of just what happened. 
  
 “The FCC should immediately release its logs to an independent security analyst or major news outlet to verify exactly what happened last night,” said Evan Greer, the group’s campaign director. “The public deserves to know, and the FCC has a responsibility to maintain a functioning website and ensure that every member of the public who wants to submit a comment about net neutrality has the ability to do so. Anything less is a subversion of our democracy.” |||||  
  
 "Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver asked viewers to submit comments to the FCC on net neutrality rules. (Eric Liebowitz) 
  
 Update: FCC spokesman Mark Wigfield said late Monday that the Federal Communications Commission has updated its systems to a cloud service that should be more resilient against attacks. He affirmed that there had been a cyberattack on the agency's site Sunday, and said that the agency also suffered an attack in 2014 after Oliver's previous segment. 
  
 Original post: The Federal Communications Commission said Monday that its website was the target of an attack designed to overwhelm it with traffic and keep people from commenting on its proposals. The attack prevented the FCC from responding to people attempting to submit comments since Sunday night, the agency said. 
  
  
  
 Before the FCC revealed the cyberattack, some had linked comedian John Oliver to the agency's website problems, which appeared to begin after the “Last Week Tonight” host asked viewers to submit online comments to the FCC to save its current net neutrality rules. Since Oliver's show aired on Sunday, the commenting site has had intermittent connectivity problems. 
  
 The FCC said in a statement, however, that its investigation shows the site's problems were caused by a cyberattack, not by an influx of people trying to file comments. 
  
 A federal court recently ruled that high-speed internet is a utility, not a luxury. The Washington Post's Brian Fung explains why net neutrality matters to consumers. (Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post) 
  
 [The FCC just released a plan to undo its own net neutrality rules] 
  
 “These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC,” said David Bray, the agency's chief information officer. 
  
 But the agency's statement has raised skepticism from consumer advocacy group Fight for the Future. The group said in a statement that it finds the timing of the attack too coincidental. The group raised questions about whether the FCC was diagnosing the slowdown correctly, or whether an outside attack could have been launched specifically to keep Oliver's viewers from commenting. 
  
 “The FCC should immediately release its logs to an independent security analyst or major news outlet to verify exactly what happened last night,” said the group's campaign director, Evan Greer. 
  
 On Sunday, Oliver criticized FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's draft proposal to undo Obama-era rules that forced Internet providers to behave more like traditional telephone companies — and made it illegal for them to block or slow websites. The TV host asked people to visit gofccyourself.com, which offers a link to the FCC's comments section. Oliver also poked quite a bit of fun at the chairman himself (including a gag making fun of Pai's well-documented affinity for an oversize mug featuring the logo of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups). 
  
 Pai has argued that there is no indication that Internet service providers planned to make the Web less open or free. He characterizes the current net neutrality rules, which he voted against as an FCC commissioner, as governmental overreach. 
  
 This weekend's episode is a repeat effort in support of net neutrality regulations on Oliver's part. The TV host asked his viewers in 2014 to comment on the FCC's website about net neutrality as the agency mulled its options. The site crashed shortly thereafter, apparently from the influx of commenters reaching out to then-Chairman Tom Wheeler asking him to protect the principle of a free and open Internet. 
  
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 That episode has been called a turning point for the net neutrality movement. Advocates hope that Sunday's segment will do the same. 
  
 “In 2014, John Oliver’s net neutrality segment was one of many inflection points in the public campaign to secure strong rules,” said David Segal, executive director of the advocacy group Demand Progress. “In his segment last night, Oliver exposed the hypocrisies and spin of Chairman Pai and the large ISPs, who continue to make Orwellian claims that they support the open Internet while doing all they can to dismantle the legal foundation necessary for strong net neutrality rules.” 
  
 The FCC site has received tens of thousands of comments since Sunday's episode aired. 
  
  
  
 Pai has moved quickly to enact a more limited, conservative approach to the agency's actions in his first 100 days as chairman. He has introduced a proposal to roll back Wheeler's rules. The FCC is scheduled to vote on that proposal May 18. |||||
Output:
Not for the first time, John Oliver used his show Sunday as a platform to attack the FCC over net neutrality—specifically FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to scale back net neutrality rules—and encouraged viewers to go to the FCC's website to comment on the issue. Many, however, didn't get the chance. At midnight, just as Last Week Tonight ended, the FCC's website crashed. According to the FCC, it wasn't high traffic from Oliver's viewers that was the issue. Instead, the website was hit with "multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks" that kept people from accessing the comment system for close to nine hours, the FCC says, per CNET. But the timing of the attack has some a little suspicious. Fight for the Future, a group that defends net neutrality, suggests the attack might have been a direct attempt to keep Oliver's viewers from speaking out against Pai's plan, especially given the impact of an episode of Last Week Tonight that Oliver dedicated to defending net neutrality in 2014, reports the Washington Post. Everyone should be able to comment on net neutrality and "anything less is a subversion of our democracy," says a group rep. "The FCC should immediately release its logs … to verify exactly what happened." Variety reports there have been 100,000 comments on net neutrality since Sunday.