{"id":11106,"date":"2011-08-29T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2011-08-29T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:01:20","slug":"irony-gallup-poll-shows-tech-industry-rated-highest-federal-govt-that-keeps-regulating-it-rated-lowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11106\/irony-gallup-poll-shows-tech-industry-rated-highest-federal-govt-that-keeps-regulating-it-rated-lowest\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony: Gallup Poll Shows Tech Industry Rated Highest, Federal Gov’t That Keeps Regulating It Rated Lowest"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a new poll from Gallup<\/a>, Americans rate the “Computer Industry” most positively among 25 business and government entities, with the “Internet Industry” close behind.\u00a0 That’s no surprise – few innovations in human history have transformed our lives as rapidly and profoundly as the tech sector.<\/p>\n

But here’s an irony.\u00a0 The federal government, which constantly interferes with tech sector innovation via such bureaucratic assaults as so-called “Net Neutrality”<\/a> and interference with the private proposed merger<\/a> between AT&T and T-Mobile, is rated least favorably by Americans.\u00a0 Only 17% of Americans rate the federal government positively, which 63% rate it negatively.\u00a0 In contrast, the computer industry is rated positively by a 72% to 10% margin, and the Internet industry is rated positively by a 56% to 16% ratio.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we’d all be better off if the tech sector began monitoring the federal government, rather than the converse.\u00a0 It certainly appears that most Americans would agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a new poll from Gallup, Americans rate the “Computer Industry” most positively among 25 business and government entities, with the “Internet Industry” close behind.\u00a0 That’s no surprise – few innovations in human history have transformed our lives as rapidly and profoundly as the tech sector. But here’s an irony.\u00a0 The federal government, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,102,842,148,61,71],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-government","tag-free-market","tag-gallup","tag-net-neutrality","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11119,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}