{"id":16440,"date":"2010-12-17T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2010-12-17T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T13:04:10","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16440","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning Of The End Of The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FCC – led by Julius “Caesar” Genachowski – is voting on its first “Net Neutrality” rules:<\/a><\/p>\n

Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Federal Communications Commission will vote on Dec. 21 on whether to adopt regulations that ban the blocking of lawful traffic but allow Internet service providers to ration Web traffic on their networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So now the Internet – developed from a scientists’ and academics’ toy by immense private-sector investment – is now under government control.<\/p>\n

And if the FCC is now telling service providers what they can’t block, then it’s a short step to them saying what they must block.<\/p>\n

It’s the camel’s nose in the tent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FCC – led by Julius “Caesar” Genachowski – is voting on its first “Net Neutrality” rules: Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday. The Federal Communications Commission will vote on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16441,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}