{"id":33614,"date":"2013-05-06T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/the-fcc-foxes-and-henhouses.html"},"modified":"2013-05-07T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:44:31","slug":"the-fcc-foxes-and-henhouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/the-fcc-foxes-and-henhouses.html","title":{"rendered":"The FCC, Foxes, and Henhouses"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yeah, while it's too early to tell, it's never too early to worry when AT&T and Comcast think the new head of the FCC is a great pick for their business. Thanks, Obama.<\/div>\n

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Uh-oh: AT&T and Comcast are ecstatic about the FCC\u2019s new chairman<\/a>
\n AT&T calls new chairman an “inspired pick,” seeks end to “outdated” regulations.\n <\/p>\n

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Yeah, while it's too early to tell, it's never too early to worry when AT&T and Comcast think the new head of the FCC is a great pick for their business. Thanks, Obama. Uh-oh: AT&T and Comcast are ecstatic about the FCC\u2019s new chairman AT&T calls new chairman an “inspired pick,” seeks end to “outdated” … Continue reading “The FCC, Foxes, and Henhouses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,35,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-moguls","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136529,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/apparently-the-fcc-gets-a-lot-of-complaints-about-youtube.html","url_meta":{"origin":33614,"position":0},"title":"Apparently the FCC gets a lot of complaints about YouTube","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-May-18 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"The majority seem to be \"Anyone who takes stuff I like down from their privately owned site is practicing censorship because YouTube is a public utility so the FCC should be forcing them to leave up the stuff I like.\" Though there's a good sprinkling of \"YouTube has stuff I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":135961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/fcc-tries-cake-eat.html","url_meta":{"origin":33614,"position":1},"title":"FCC tries to have its cake and eat it, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-18 12:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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