{"id":49492,"date":"2015-02-04T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T23:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/well-this-certainly-looks-promising-for-the-internet.html"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T23:02:51","slug":"well-this-certainly-looks-promising-for-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/well-this-certainly-looks-promising-for-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, this certainly looks promising for the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is not a private shopping mall to be milked for the greatest profit by the owner and biggest tenants, but a telecommunication service that, like the phone lines themselves, are a critical part of the infrastructure, and access to which must be kept on as level a playing field as possible. It&#39;s good to see the FCC embracing Title II in a reasonable fashion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/02\/huge-win-open-internet-fcc-officially-embraces-title-ii'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1b2ymy2TBmiGHHeKCiBvIyr3ycxjLIPi9N8rWTeC8OGWmtWTFlpF6Q7RNNvwbsfGT-i7VAYgMN73OrMZ3Rx27I8x=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/02\/huge-win-open-internet-fcc-officially-embraces-title-ii'>Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWell done, Team Internet.  After a year of intense activism, we may have finally convinced the Federal Communications Commission to change course and craft clear, bright-line rules to protect the open internet, based on legal authority that will actually survive the inevitable legal challenge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hyiuoeRjKs4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is not a private shopping mall to be milked for the greatest profit by the owner and biggest tenants, but a telecommunication service that, like the phone lines themselves, are a critical part of the infrastructure, and access to which must be kept on as level a playing field as possible. It&#39;s good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/well-this-certainly-looks-promising-for-the-internet.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Well, this certainly looks promising for the Internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133888,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/comcast-tells-one-story-to-the-fcc-a-different-story-to-its-investors.html","url_meta":{"origin":49492,"position":0},"title":"Comcast tells one story to the FCC, a different story to its investors","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-17 8:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Did Title II and Net Neutrality reduce Comcast's capital investment in telecommunications?If you look at what it's saying today to the FCC, then, yes, it led to fear, trembling, apprehension, and a massive scaling back of spending because who would possibly invest in internet and broadband if they couldn't throttle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44045,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/as-american-as-baseball-and-net-neutrality.html","url_meta":{"origin":49492,"position":1},"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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