{"id":25578,"date":"2020-05-11T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25578"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:37:38","slug":"image-of-the-day-majority-says-internet-better-left-to-private-providers-not-federal-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25578\/image-of-the-day-majority-says-internet-better-left-to-private-providers-not-federal-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Majority Says Internet Better Left to Private Providers, Not Federal Bureaucrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF continues to highlight how Federal Communications Commission (FCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/62-technology-and-telecom\/4978-net-neutrality-pandemic-vindicates-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai\">Chairman Ajit Pai&#8217;s &#8220;light touch&#8221; regulatory approach<\/a> benefits Americans immensely in terms of internet service, particularly amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.\u00a0 The left-leaning Pew Research Center offers an encouraging new survey in that regard, highlighting how large majorities agree that while internet service remains essential, it&#8217;s something better left to private internet providers than the federal government:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/PI_2020.04.30_COVID-internet_00-1.png?resize=640,687\" alt=\"Majority Disfavors Federal Internet Control\" width=\"547\" height=\"587\" \/> Public Disfavors Federal Internet Control<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF continues to highlight how Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai&#8217;s &#8220;light touch&#8221; regulatory approach benefits Americans immensely in terms of internet service, particularly amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.\u00a0 The left-leaning Pew Research Center offers an encouraging new survey in that regard, highlighting how large majorities agree that while internet service remains essential, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[1388,188,346,308,148,5108],"class_list":["post-25578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-broadband","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-pai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578","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=25578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25580,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions\/25580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}