{"id":34563,"date":"2015-02-26T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2015-02-26T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:14:21","slug":"a-good-day-for-internet-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/a-good-day-for-internet-users\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Day for Internet Users!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">FCC<\/a> adopted strong legal protections for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Net_neutrality\" target=\"_blank\">network neutrality<\/a> that will yield civic, social and economic benefits for U.S. citizens.\u00a0 The FCC issued a statement which said in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the Commission\u2014once and for all\u2014enacts strong, sustainable rules, grounded in multiple sources of legal authority, to ensure that Americans reap the economic, social, and civic benefits of an Open Internet today and into the future. These new rules are guided by three principles: America\u2019s broadband networks must be fast, fair and open\u2014principles shared by the overwhelming majority of the nearly 4 million commenters who participated in the FCC\u2019s Open Internet proceeding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The details can be view on the FCC web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-adopts-strong-sustainable-rules-protect-open-internet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the FCC adopted strong legal protections for network neutrality that will yield civic, social and economic benefits for U.S. citizens.\u00a0 The FCC issued a statement which said in part: Today, the Commission\u2014once and for all\u2014enacts strong, sustainable rules, grounded in multiple sources of legal authority, to ensure that Americans reap the economic, social, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/a-good-day-for-internet-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Good Day for Internet Users!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34565,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions\/34565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}