{"id":26026,"date":"2022-04-18T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26026"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:19:50","slug":"image-of-the-day-light-touch-regulatory-policies-have-kept-broadband-prices-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26026\/image-of-the-day-light-touch-regulatory-policies-have-kept-broadband-prices-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  &#8220;Light Touch&#8221; Regulatory Policies Have Kept Broadband Prices Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans express growing alarm over consumer price inflation that commenced in January 2021 under the Biden Administration and Pelosi\/Schumer Congress (<a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26015\/image-of-the-day-bidens-silly-putin-price-hike-excuse\/\">see here<\/a>), it&#8217;s worth highlighting how critical broadband access on which our economy increasingly depends has diverged from that trend.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also worth highlighting that stems from the fact that internet service has so far escaped Biden Administration regulatory attempts to reverse <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/62-technology-and-telecom\/5845-new-studies-reconfirm-light-touch-internet-regulation-fuels-superior-us-performance\">free-market progress achieved<\/a>\u00a0under former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncta.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/774-inflationchart.png\" width=\"774\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans express growing alarm over consumer price inflation that commenced in January 2021 under the Biden Administration and Pelosi\/Schumer Congress (see here), it&#8217;s worth highlighting how critical broadband access on which our economy increasingly depends has diverged from that trend.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also worth highlighting that stems from the fact that internet service has so [&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":[860,1388,188,346,500,148,5108,1229],"class_list":["post-26026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-biden","tag-broadband","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-inflation","tag-net-neutrality","tag-pai","tag-title-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26026","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=26026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26029,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26026\/revisions\/26029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}