When the European Union set out to establish rules on net neutrality — to protect the public from ISPs establishing fast and slow lanes on the Internet — 510,385 people submitted comments urging regulators to enact strong rules.

But where did all those people come from? I took a look at the piwik logs from the SavetheInternet.eu site to help answer that question.

Top countries

Comments were submitted from around the world, including from all 28 European Union member countries. Most of the submissions came from large countries, but some smaller EU countries, like Ireland, Malta, and Slovenia, played major roles as well.

Data source: www.savetheinternet.eu traffic information collected on piwik, 12/13/2013–7/31/2016.

Not surprisingly, the largest country in the EU, Germany, sent the most comments. But when you look at the number of comments sent by each country as a percentage of their population, it’s clear that the residents of some smaller EU countries also strongly support net neutrality.

Top 10 submitting countries (ranked by comment submissions per capita)

Ireland (.039%) Germany (.038%) Slovenia (.021%) Denmark (.02%) Austria (.017%) United Kingdom (.017%) Sweden (.017%) Netherlands (.015%) Malta (.015%) Spain (.015%)

Top referrers

People who used SavetheInternet.eu to take action in support of net neutrality were referred from hundreds of websites and social media platforms. Though some of the traffic came from sites like Mozilla providing links for their users, a significant amount also came from user-generated content posted to sites like Reddit and Facebook.

BullChat embeded a “Save the Internet” action widget in their chat app.

The Netherlands-based gay chat site BullChat was a top referrer, suggesting that the gay community is concerned about the discriminatory potential of practices like fast lanes, throttling, and zero rating on free expression and online communities. However, since bullchat was embedding content from savetheinternet.eu in their site, these numbers over report their number of referrals, and it’s unclear exactly how much traffic they contributed relative to other sites.