{"id":47925,"date":"2014-11-11T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-the-net-neutrality-political-debate.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T16:11:10","slug":"on-the-net-neutrality-political-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-the-net-neutrality-political-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Net Neutrality political debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair, it&#39;s not clear to me that this is strictly a partisan issue. Plenty of Dems are in bed with major corporate players here, too. Comcast, et al., don&#39;t care about blue or red so long as green is the result.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we need to label the alternative to Net Neutrality.  Net Discrimination? Net Partiality? Net Favoritism? Net Profit?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Sabeena LoBello<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/113705854826715964497\/albums\/6080266545510628097\/6080266548629403186'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-aWgnreJ2qrc\/VGFyNhq-9jI\/AAAAAAADlv0\/OspuzvBIUzk\/Net%2Bneutrality.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XnTpGkv32ze'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair, it&#39;s not clear to me that this is strictly a partisan issue. Plenty of Dems are in bed with major corporate players here, too. Comcast, et al., don&#39;t care about blue or red so long as green is the result. Maybe we need to label the alternative to Net Neutrality. Net Discrimination? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-the-net-neutrality-political-debate.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Net Neutrality political debate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47926,"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":[106,35,3,28,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","category-media-moguls","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Net+neutrality.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44045,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/as-american-as-baseball-and-net-neutrality.html","url_meta":{"origin":47925,"position":0},"title":"As American as Baseball and Net Neutrality","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Aug-14 9:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Among the many, many comments submitted to the FCC regarding net neutrality, Major League Baseball has come out strongly in favor of it. 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