{"id":4138,"date":"2012-05-11T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2012-05-11T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T18:41:41","slug":"netherlands-becomes-worlds-second-net-neutrality-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands becomes world\u2019s second \u201cnet neutrality\u201d country"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A year ago, the former Dutch telecoms monopolist KPN unveiled a plan to make mobile users pay extra for data used by certain third-party apps, such as WhatsApp and Skype, that replaced KPN services like text messaging and voice calls. <strong>In response, the Dutch parliament quickly added net neutrality provisions to its telecommunications law<\/strong>. Tuesday, the Dutch senate at last approved the law, making the Netherlands the second country in the world (after Chile) with net neutrality written into statute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/05\/netherlands-becomes-worlds-second-net-neutrality-country\/\">Netherlands becomes world\u2019s second \u201cnet neutrality\u201d country | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, the former Dutch telecoms monopolist KPN unveiled a plan to make mobile users pay extra for data used by certain third-party apps, such as WhatsApp and Skype, that replaced KPN services like text messaging and voice calls. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4138\">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":[6],"tags":[47,621],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","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=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}