{"id":198501,"date":"2007-11-02T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/02\/municipal-wi-fi-and-broadband-bans-overturned-in-senate-markup\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T23:34:00","slug":"municipal-wi-fi-and-broadband-bans-overturned-in-senate-markup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/02\/municipal-wi-fi-and-broadband-bans-overturned-in-senate-markup\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Wi-Fi and Broadband Bans Overturned in Senate Markup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of states in which the pig felching greedheads in the phone companies have managed to make municipal broadband and WI-Fi illegal, and a number of other states where they are trying to.<\/p>\n<p>We have good news, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9809196-7.html?part=dht\">Senate Commerce Committee<\/a> has passed a bill out to the floor that overturns these laws with broad bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>Bad news is that there is no similar effort right now in the house, so call your congresscritter, and tell them to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:s.01853:\">Community Broadband Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of states in which the pig felching greedheads in the phone companies have managed to make municipal broadband and WI-Fi illegal, and a number of other states where they are trying to. We have good news, the Senate Commerce Committee has passed a bill out to the floor that overturns these &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,997,1020,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-internet","category-legislation","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198501"}],"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=198501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}