You're now free to comment on the FCC's plan to change how the internet is run - here's how

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday released its updated proposal to repeal the net-neutrality rules set during the Obama administration.

There isn't much about the new text that's radically different than the initial proposal the FCC released in late April - it still aims to reverse the Title II classification that gives the agency broad authority over internet service providers, and still questions whether rules that ban those ISPs from slowing down or speeding up certain sites for payment are even necessary in the first place.

But the release also means that the public is once again free to comment on what it thinks of FCC chairman Ajit Pai's plans.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead-up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal - many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots. The nature of the FCC's rulemaking process means the thousands of comments submitted in the week leading up to the agency's latest vote won't be counted as part of the public record, either.

Whatever the case, if you want to definitively share your opinion on how the government should regulate the internet going forward, now's the time to do so.

Sadly, the FCC's process for accepting comments is as wonky and unintuitive as you'd expect a government website to be. So, to help, here's a quick walkthrough of what you need to do: