{"id":190809,"date":"2009-10-23T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/23\/fcc-votes-to-approve-network-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:04:00","slug":"fcc-votes-to-approve-network-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/23\/fcc-votes-to-approve-network-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Votes to Approve Network Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/33432490\">vote was unanimous<\/a>, despite the fact that the phone and cable companies, &lt;Sarcasm&gt; who are so beloved by Americans,&lt;\/Sarcasm&gt; were lobbying against it:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>US communications regulators voted unanimously to support an open Internet rule that would prevent telecom network operators from barring or blocking content based on the revenue it generated.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed rule now goes to the public for comment until Jan.14, after which the Federal Communications Commissions will review the feedback and possibly seek more comment.<\/p>\n<p>A final rule is not expected until the spring of next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, one of the best barometers in the business, John Sidney McCain III, is trying to stop them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was unanimous, despite the fact that the phone and cable companies, &lt;Sarcasm&gt; who are so beloved by Americans,&lt;\/Sarcasm&gt; were lobbying against it: US communications regulators voted unanimously to support an open Internet rule that would prevent telecom network operators from barring or blocking content based on the revenue it generated. The proposed rule &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,997,1228,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-internet","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190809"}],"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=190809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}