{"id":1654,"date":"2010-05-06T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2010\/05\/06\/fcc_power_grab_further_pummels\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:56:41","slug":"fcc_power_grab_further_pummels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2010\/05\/06\/fcc_power_grab_further_pummels\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Power Grab Further Pummels Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703961104575226583645448758.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection\">A sudden decision by the head of the Federal Communications Commission<\/a> to accept Net Neutrality rules flies in the face of the economic arguments&#8211;and the fairness arguments&#8211;against such a departure. Hance Haney made the case earlier this week in the <em>Seattle Times<\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8220;An open Internet where broadband providers do not block access to websites or discriminate between content or applications isn&#8217;t a vision,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s a description of the unregulated Internet we already enjoy today. Those in Washington, D.C., who want to change it could stymie it instead and damage the economy.&#8221; He was speaking of the FCC.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.org\/a\/14591\">Read it all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sudden decision by the head of the Federal Communications Commission to accept Net Neutrality rules flies in the face of the economic arguments&#8211;and the fairness arguments&#8211;against such a departure. Hance Haney made the case earlier this week in the Seattle Times. &#8220;An open Internet where broadband providers do not block access to websites or discriminate between content or applications isn&#8217;t a vision,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s a description of the unregulated Internet we already enjoy today. Those in Washington, D.C., who want to change it could stymie it instead and damage the economy.&#8221; He was speaking of the FCC. Read it all here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[102],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Bruce Chapman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1654"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}