Guy Files Dishwasher User Manual As An FCC Comment On Net Neutrality

from the performance-art? dept

The FCC has confirmed that over 1 million comments have already been filed in the open comment period concerning net neutrality and the open internet. The official comment period closes tonight at midnight (and even that's kind of meaningless because there's a "reply" commenting period for the next few months that will let people respond to initial comments), and we've started sorting through some of the many comments filed. We'll be highlighting some interesting comments and trends that we spot, but last night I found one filing so odd, it deserved a quick post on its own.

Kurt Schaake of Lawrence, Kansas, appears to have filed the Dishwasher User Instruction manual for a Whirlpool dishwasher as his comment. I don't know if this is an accident, performance art, a weird and incomprehensible statement on the nature of the free and open internet or what. About the only immediate information I can find on Schaake is that he's an engineer who spent a bunch of time helping to rebuild Iraq a decade ago. Here's a photo of him sitting in a "golden throne" at Saddam Hussein's presidential palace. What any of this has to do with net neutrality is beyond me, but it is oddly amusing.

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