{"id":3944,"date":"2010-02-24T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:15:44","slug":"net-neutrality-get-out-of-the-way-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3944\/net-neutrality-get-out-of-the-way-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality:  Get Out of the Way, Bureaucrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/02\/24\/net-neutrality-get-out-of-the-way-bureaucrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed publish today by <em>The Daily Caller<\/em><\/a>, CFIF\u2019s Jeffrey Mazzella and Timothy Lee warn that proposed \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d rules being considered by President Obama\u2019s Federal Communications Commission threaten to stifle Internet innovation and cut off tens of billions of dollars in private investment\u00a0 in the deployment of high-speed broadband networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to private investments of $60 billion or more annually by Internet service providers, the World Wide Web has blossomed over the past decade into a tool that most Americans use daily to access news, information and entertainment. We also use it to communicate with family and friends, to share photos with loved ones, and for education and civic participation purposes. The Internet drives increased commerce and promises efficiencies in the healthcare and energy sectors. It motivates new innovation and jobs on a pace that continues to surpass our collective imagination.<\/p>\n<p>All this has been made possible primarily because the Internet has remained largely unregulated. Its growth and development have been gated not by federal bureaucrats, but rather by users\u2019 individual wants, needs and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>But all of that could change if net neutrality regulations are put in place. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full piece <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/02\/24\/net-neutrality-get-out-of-the-way-bureaucrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join the fight to stop the government takeover of the Internet <a href=\"http:\/\/stopnetregulation.org\/stop\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed publish today by The Daily Caller, CFIF\u2019s Jeffrey Mazzella and Timothy Lee warn that proposed \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d rules being considered by President Obama\u2019s Federal Communications Commission threaten to stifle Internet innovation and cut off tens of billions of dollars in private investment\u00a0 in the deployment of high-speed broadband networks.\u00a0 Thanks to private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,308,148,300],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}