{"id":181475,"date":"2016-06-14T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/14\/human-beings-1-cable-companies-0\/"},"modified":"2016-06-14T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:58:00","slug":"human-beings-1-cable-companies-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/14\/human-beings-1-cable-companies-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Beings: 1 \u2014 Cable Companies: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Court of Appeals just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/15\/technology\/net-neutrality-fcc-appeals-court-ruling.html\">affirmed the FCC&#8217;s net neutrality rulings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled in a sweeping decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband providers and greater protections for web users.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision affirmed the government\u2019s view that broadband is as essential as the phone and power and should be available to all Americans, rather than a luxury that does not need close government supervision.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 2-to-1 decision from a three-judge panel at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday came in a case about rules applying to a doctrine known as net neutrality, which prohibit broadband companies from blocking or slowing the delivery of internet content to consumers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The court\u2019s decision upheld the F.C.C. on the declaration of broadband as a utility, which was the most significant aspect of the rules. That has broad-reaching implications for web and telecommunications companies that have battled for nearly a decade over the need for regulation to ensure web users get full and equal access to all content online.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cable companies and Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> promise to appeal to the Supreme Court, but thankfully, Scalia is dead, and I as such, I cannot see this being reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Court of Appeals just affirmed the FCC&#8217;s net neutrality rulings: High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled in a sweeping decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband providers and greater protections for web users.The decision affirmed the government\u2019s view that broadband is as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,997,972,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-internet","category-justice","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181475"}],"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=181475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}