{"id":4962,"date":"2006-10-19T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/net-neutrality-who-gives-a-sht.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:33:15","slug":"net-neutrality-who-gives-a-sht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/net-neutrality-who-gives-a-sht.html","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality \u2013 Who Gives a Sh&#038;*^%$T?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously people don&rsquo;t care. Excuse the profanity but I can&rsquo;t believe it. At the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\">ITEXPO<\/a> I asked hundreds of people in the keynote how many people cared about net neutrality and out of somewhere around 500-700 people, 2 or 3 people raised their hands.<\/p>\n<p>One would imagine anyone coming to a conference on IP communications\/VoIP would know enough about the issue to have a strong opinion in favor of net neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>I am pretty dumbfounded. I would have guessed 20-30% would have raised their hands.<\/p>\n<p>I have mentioned before that no one cared about net neutrality and my prior thoughts were based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/save-the-internet.html\">Alexa ranking<\/a> of an associated site. Now there is the stark reality of having blank stares when I bring the topic up at an event. Very weird.<\/p>\n<p>In fact the interest level is so low it is probably a better use of time to just delete this post than to put it online \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously people don&rsquo;t care. Excuse the profanity but I can&rsquo;t believe it. At the last ITEXPO I asked hundreds of people in the keynote how many people cared about net neutrality and out of somewhere around 500-700 people, 2 or 3 people raised their hands. One would imagine anyone coming to a conference on IP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,212,218,197,189,190,191,219,175],"tags":[453,251,507,920,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962"}],"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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}