{"id":336054,"date":"2017-11-22T00:48:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T23:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fcc-gives-internet-service-providers-power-to-determine-what-websites-its-users-can-see-and-use\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T23:48:36","slug":"fcc-gives-internet-service-providers-power-to-determine-what-websites-its-users-can-see-and-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fcc-gives-internet-service-providers-power-to-determine-what-websites-its-users-can-see-and-use\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Gives Internet Service Providers Power to Determine What Websites its Users Can See and Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Federal regulators Tuesday outlined their plans for dismantling Obama-era open-internet rules, setting up a clear victory for cable and wireless firms that provide most internet service.<\/p>\n<p>They would create a range of new opportunities for internet providers such as Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., Charter Communications Inc. and\u00a0AT&amp;T\u00a0Inc., enabling them to form alliances with media and other online firms to offer web services at higher speeds and quality. They also would help clear the way for creative pricing and bundling of services to attract more customers.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are expected to be approved at a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) meeting in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder my proposal, the federal government will stop micromanaging the Internet,\u201d Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement, adding: \u201cWorking with my colleagues, I look forward to returning to the light-touch, market-based framework that unleashed the digital revolution and benefited consumers here and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telecom companies cheered the move.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon said in a statement that it was \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by Mr. Pai\u2019s announcement. It added: \u201cWe continue to believe that users should be able to access the internet when, where, and how they choose\u2026.We are also confident that the FCC will reinstate a framework that protects consumers\u2019 access to the open internet, without forcing them to bear the heavy costs from unnecessary regulation that chases away&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/fcc-gives-internet-service-providers-power-to-determine-what-websites-its-users-can-see-and-use\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal regulators Tuesday outlined their plans for dismantling Obama-era open-internet rules, setting up a clear victory for cable and wireless firms that provide most internet service. They would create a range of new opportunities for internet providers such as Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., Charter Communications Inc. and\u00a0AT&amp;T\u00a0Inc., enabling them to form alliances with media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}