{"id":20806,"date":"2014-05-30T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20806"},"modified":"2014-05-30T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T13:38:07","slug":"take-action-to-stop-net-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20806\/take-action-to-stop-net-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action to Stop Net Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), bowing to the demands of liberal special interests, is actually considering a scheme to regulate the Internet like a public utility. And if they get their way, this egregious government overreach into the broadband economy will almost certainly kill job creation, harm consumers and bring a significant amount of\u00a0investment and innovation to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, the federal government micromanaging the Internet under\u00a0Title II of the\u00a0Telecommunications Act\u00a0is a dangerous scheme, one that Congress must halt and the FCC must abandon. That&#8217;s why the Center for Individual Freedom\u00a0this week activated\u00a0StopNetRegulation.org, a project dedicated to ensuring the Internet remains free from heavy-handed government regulations and stopping this latest power grab by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Join the fight by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopnetregulation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">StopNetRegulation.org<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0While there, use the\u00a0web form to quickly and easily\u00a0contact your Members of Congress and the FCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), bowing to the demands of liberal special interests, is actually considering a scheme to regulate the Internet like a public utility. And if they get their way, this egregious government overreach into the broadband economy will almost certainly kill job creation, harm consumers and bring a significant amount of\u00a0investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1388,188,148,4511,1229],"class_list":["post-20806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-broadband","tag-fcc","tag-net-neutrality","tag-stopnetregulation-org","tag-title-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20808,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806\/revisions\/20808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}