{"id":1415,"date":"2009-10-19T11:37:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2009-10-19T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T18:37:40","slug":"facebook-now-friends-with-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1415\/facebook-now-friends-with-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Now Friends with FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2009\/10\/18\/facebook-and-twitter-founders-join-net-neutrality-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/span><\/a> is reporting that the push for so-called \u201cnet neutrality\u201d is heating up in corporate boardrooms, as Internet giants Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Amazon penned a letter to FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Chairman Julius Genachowki this week\u00a0in support of his plan\u00a0for\u00a0stifling government regulation of private high-speed wireline and wireless networks.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC is scheduled to release details of its net neutrality rules on Thursday.\u00a0 However, the period for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/contacts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">public comment<\/span><\/a> is still open.\u00a0 Or, you can call the Congressional switchboard (202-224-3121) to air your views\u00a0against government regulation of the Internet with your elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Individual Freedom opposes so-called \u201cnet neutrality\u201d because it would introduce stifling government regulations onto what is now a free and open Internet.\u00a0 More <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/62-technology-and-telecom\/303-net-neutrality-regulating-and-politicizing-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/tag\/net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the push for so-called \u201cnet neutrality\u201d is heating up in corporate boardrooms, as Internet giants Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Amazon penned a letter to FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Chairman Julius Genachowki this week\u00a0in support of his plan\u00a0for\u00a0stifling government regulation of private high-speed wireline and wireless networks. The FCC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[307,188,308,148],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-facebook","tag-fcc","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}