Over 22 million comments were submitted to the FCC on the topic of Net Neutrality. The vast majority of these were pre-fabricated comments, submitted by both real people and automated "bots". Only a small fraction were comments that were uniquely created, likely by a person with a very real personal stake in the FCC's decisions on Net Neutrality.

After removing pre-fabricated comments, short submissions (less than 140 characters) and filings with inconsistent addresses (e.g. zip code in wrong state), the resulting 502,667 submissions can be viewed on Perfect Union based on the Congressional District the filer resided in.

• All the comment data was downloaded from the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System

• Thanks to Fight for the Future and Ragtag for their interest in coming together to analyze the comment data. The pre-fabricated templates have been identified and removed using code in Ragtag's fccforensics repository. Read a blog post about that work.

• Mike Bostock's D3+SVG Congressional District Map was the starting point for the visualization work.

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