Topic Analysis of the FCC’s Public Comments on Net Neutrality
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The FCC’s proposed net neutrality policy change in 2014 was met with widespread public controversy and outrage. The FCC recently released to the public millions of comments that it received about the issue. It is abundantly clear that the vast majority of citizens prefer to have net neutrality intact, but what exactly are the people saying? What are their main arguments and reasons for wanting to maintain net neutrality? In this project, we use natural language processing techniques to analyze the arguments in 800,000 of the comments.
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