{"id":179482,"date":"2018-01-24T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/24\/kudos-to-montana\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:39:00","slug":"kudos-to-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/24\/kudos-to-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Sky State has become <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/01\/sorry-fcc-montana-is-enforcing-net-neutrality-with-new-executive-order\/\">the first red state to draft net neutrality regulations in response to the FCC repeal of net neutrality<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Montana will require Internet service providers to follow net neutrality principles in order to receive state government contracts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, today signed an executive order imposing that requirement beginning July 1, 2018.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;There has been a lot of talk around the country about how to respond to the recent decision by Federal Communications Commission to repeal net neutrality rules, which keep the Internet free and open,&#8221; Bullock said. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to actually do something about it. This is a simple step states can take to preserve and protect net neutrality. We can&#8217;t wait for folks in Washington, DC, to come to their senses and reinstate these rules.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, Montana?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that this issue may be an albatross around the neck of the Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Sky State has become the first red state to draft net neutrality regulations in response to the FCC repeal of net neutrality: Montana will require Internet service providers to follow net neutrality principles in order to receive state government contracts.Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, today signed an executive order imposing that requirement beginning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,367,374,437],"class_list":["post-179482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}