{"id":197313,"date":"2008-02-14T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/rep-markey-tries-incrementalism-in-new-net-neutrality-bill\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:02:00","slug":"rep-markey-tries-incrementalism-in-new-net-neutrality-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/rep-markey-tries-incrementalism-in-new-net-neutrality-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Markey Tries Incrementalism In New Net Neutrality Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the draw by crayon libertarians at CNET get it wrong, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/totsf\/item\/1068\">Harold Feld at TOTSF<\/a> gets it right.<\/p>\n<p>This is a change, and while it seems minor at least to the folks at CNET, it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, it ammends the FCC act of 1934 and adds a specific goal for the regulators at the FCC:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>by adopting and enforcing baseline protections to guard against unreasonable discriminatory favoratism for, or degredation of, operators based upon its source, ownership or destination on the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, this explicitly gives the FCC authority over &#8220;information services&#8221;, and eliminates the argument that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 stripped this authority.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the whole post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the draw by crayon libertarians at CNET get it wrong, and Harold Feld at TOTSF gets it right. This is a change, and while it seems minor at least to the folks at CNET, it&#8217;s not. Specifically, it ammends the FCC act of 1934 and adds a specific goal for the regulators at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,997,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-internet","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197313"}],"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=197313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}