{"id":679,"date":"2006-06-09T02:29:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T02:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2006-06-09T02:29:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T02:29:41","slug":"house_passes_bill_breaking_int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/house_passes_bill_breaking_int\/","title":{"rendered":"congress passes telecom bill, breaks internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The benighted and corrupt U.S. House of Representatives, well greased by millions of lobbying dollars, has passed (321-101) the new telecommunications bill, the biggest and most far-reaching since 1996, &#8220;largely ratifying the policy agenda of the nation&#8217;s largest telephone companies&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/09\/washington\/09telecom.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">NYT<\/a>). A net neutrality amendment put forth by a small band of democrats was readily defeated, bringing Verizon, Bell South, AT&#038;T and the rest of them one step closer to remaking America&#8217;s internet in their own stupid image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The benighted and corrupt U.S. House of Representatives, well greased by millions of lobbying dollars, has passed (321-101) the new telecommunications bill, the biggest and most far-reaching since 1996, &#8220;largely ratifying the policy agenda of the nation&#8217;s largest telephone companies&#8221; (NYT). A net neutrality amendment put forth by a small band of democrats was readily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,893,1041,1285,1273,1281,1829],"tags":[2720],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-internet","category-legislation","category-net_neutrality","category-network","category-network_freedom","category-telecommunications","tag-net_neutrality-network_freedom-congress-legislation-telecommunications-network-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}