{"id":13174,"date":"2014-04-26T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2014-04-26T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T23:29:32","slug":"how-the-fcc-plans-to-save-the-internet-by-destroying-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13174","title":{"rendered":"How the FCC Plans to Save the Internet By Destroying It"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Previous telecommunications systems\u200a\u2014\u200amost notably the phone system\u200a\u2014\u200aare regulated as \u201ccommon carriers\u201d. This means you can call whoever you like; you can use whatever phone you want; and anyone in a service area can sign up at a fair rate.<\/p>\n<p>This designation recognizes that communication systems are too important to be left to the vagaries of profit-be-damned executives and that the operators are in very powerful positions to do harm and extract tolls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/p\/7805f8049503\">How the FCC Plans to Save the Internet By Destroying It: An Explainer \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous telecommunications systems\u200a\u2014\u200amost notably the phone system\u200a\u2014\u200aare regulated as \u201ccommon carriers\u201d. This means you can call whoever you like; you can use whatever phone you want; and anyone in a service area can sign up at a fair rate. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[470,621],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-fcc","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13181,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/13181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}