{"id":135961,"date":"2018-03-21T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135961"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:50:16","slug":"fcc-tries-cake-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/fcc-tries-cake-eat.html","title":{"rendered":"FCC tries to have its cake and eat it, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, maybe, say that they have no authority to do anything about net neutrality, but that they can block individual states from doing anything about net neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a number of states aren&#8217;t having any of it and are taking that contradiction to court.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23netneutrality\" rel=\"nofollow\">#netneutrality<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/How-the-FCC-May-Have-Shot-Itself-in-the-Foot-on-Net-Neutrality-141442\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/mGvDk-MJWUXhv6Vq0FUakVB2DCFFLEBR6NW8Dy_HDLhKMQgMMsgY8jY8xVwX8Syq8O8yrKSZsFYRAnnTWRaNFdpzPl_h1kDGv_tn=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/How-the-FCC-May-Have-Shot-Itself-in-the-Foot-on-Net-Neutrality-141442\">How the FCC May Have Shot Itself in the Foot on Net Neutrality<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNews: When AT&amp;T, Verizon and Comcast lobbied the Trump FCC to ignore the public and kill net neutrality last fall, they also convinced t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/aB9dXYJwtBw\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, maybe, say that they have no authority to do anything about net neutrality, but that they can block individual states from doing anything about net neutrality. Quite a number of states aren&#8217;t having any of it and are taking that contradiction to court. #netneutrality How the FCC May Have Shot Itself in the Foot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/fcc-tries-cake-eat.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FCC tries to have its cake and eat it, too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,3,374,358],"tags":[1284,1335],"class_list":["post-135961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship","tag-fcc","tag-netneutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/net-neutrality-gadsen-flag-dont-tread-on-me.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135567,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/fight-keep-net-neutrality.html","url_meta":{"origin":135961,"position":0},"title":"Fight to keep Net Neutrality","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Dec-17 2:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an important cause, if only because so much of our lives is now based on Internet access. 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