{"id":4597,"date":"2006-06-28T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/net-neutrality-today.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:51:05","slug":"net-neutrality-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/net-neutrality-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/ipcommunications.tmcnet.com\/hot-topics\/video\/articles\/1719-net-neutrality-amendment-fails-senate-commerce-committee-vote.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">story<\/font><\/a> has all the juicy details any story could want&hellip; Corruption, money, politics, and even religion&hellip; Wait, how did that get in there. Net Neutrality has become a soap opera of sorts and the only thing missing is bad acting and sex.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, there are religious groups praying for net neutrality and MoveOn.org must feel that Hilary Clinton will have an easy time getting elected &ndash; subsequently they have the excess bandwidth to focus on making sure the Internet has a single tier.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, in my mind the debate about net neutrality has crossed the line from a geeky tech issue to a more mainstream topic with a familiar cast of characters like Moby (those of you in your thirties probably know Moby and for those younger &ndash; suffice it to say that Eminem just doesn&rsquo;t like him).<\/p>\n<p>I must confess it is getting tougher and tougher to keep up with all the news on the topic but this <a href=\"http:\/\/ipcommunications.tmcnet.com\/hot-topics\/video\/articles\/1719-net-neutrality-amendment-fails-senate-commerce-committee-vote.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">article<\/font><\/a> is a good summary and will keep you up to date on what you need to know for now. My favorite part?<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;When you call these Senators, tell them you are from the Christian Coalition and to support Internet Freedom, the Snowe\/Dorgan Net Neutrality Bill,&rdquo; she wrote. &ldquo;Please be praying at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow for this important vote.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story has all the juicy details any story could want&hellip; Corruption, money, politics, and even religion&hellip; Wait, how did that get in there. Net Neutrality has become a soap opera of sorts and the only thing missing is bad acting and sex. Seriously, there are religious groups praying for net neutrality and MoveOn.org must<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,191],"tags":[920,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}