{"id":1639,"date":"2008-04-22T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T17:55:26","slug":"writers-make-a-case-for-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Writers Make a Case for Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is talking about Internet Neutrality today, and the president of the Writers Guild of America, West, and other interested parties are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/science\/17998194.html\">giving their POV<\/a>.  A new bill, Internet Freedom Preservation Act 2008 (HR 5353), intends to &#8220;enshrine Net Neutrality,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/=faq#congress\">SavetheInternet.com<\/a>.  It will place Internet Neutrality, &#8220;the longstanding principle that Internet service providers cannot discriminate against Web sites or services based on their source, ownership or destination, into the Communications Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It also requires the Federal Communications Commission to convene at least eight \u201cbroadband summits\u201d to collect public input on policies to \u201cpromote openness, competition, innovation, and affordable, ubiquitous broadband service for all individuals in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes sense to me, as far as I understand it.  We don&#8217;t want a large corporate conglomerate to own certain web hosts or service providers and be able to deny or delete content critical of their leadership or companies.  If that&#8217;s what this bill does, perhaps it is good law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is talking about Internet Neutrality today, and the president of the Writers Guild of America, West, and other interested parties are giving their POV. A new bill, Internet Freedom Preservation Act 2008 (HR 5353), intends to &#8220;enshrine Net Neutrality,&#8221; according to SavetheInternet.com. It will place Internet Neutrality, &#8220;the longstanding principle that Internet service providers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writers Make a Case for Neutrality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}