{"id":339546,"date":"2017-12-15T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fcc-officially-votes-to-kill-net-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2017-12-15T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:24:13","slug":"the-fcc-officially-votes-to-kill-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fcc-officially-votes-to-kill-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"The FCC Officially Votes to Kill Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Despite overwhelming opposition from Congress, technical experts, advocacy organizations and, of course, the American people, the FCC has voted to eliminate 2015\u2019s Open Internet Order and the net neutrality protections it established.<\/p>\n<p>The order passed today, \u201cRestoring Internet Freedom,\u201d essentially removes the FCC as a regulator of the broadband industry and relegates rules that prevented blocking and throttling content to the honor system. The FTC now ostensibly has that role, but it is far from an expert agency on this topic and cannot make preemptive rules like those that have been in place for the last few years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Scientists have determined what politics will look like in 2017, and it\u2019s beautiful. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sE74SY0GRi\">pic.twitter.com\/sE74SY0GRi<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Patrick Casey (@contentmancy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/contentmancy\/status\/941443576382263296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As expected, the vote was 3 to 2 along party lines, with Chairman Ajit Pai and Republican Commissioners Brendan Carr and Michael O\u2019Rielly voting in favor of the order, and Democratic Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel voting against.<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn and Rosenworcel made their feelings known at the meeting with some fierce remarks on the order and the procedures leading up to it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dissent from this fiercely spun, legally lightweight, consumer-harming, corporate-enabling Destroying Internet Freedom Order,\u201d said Commissioner Clyburn. \u201cThere is a basic fallacy underlying the majority\u2019s actions and rhetoric today: the assumption of what is best for broadband providers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/the-fcc-officially-votes-to-kill-net-neutrality\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite overwhelming opposition from Congress, technical experts, advocacy organizations and, of course, the American people, the FCC has voted to eliminate 2015\u2019s Open Internet Order and the net neutrality protections it established. The order passed today, \u201cRestoring Internet Freedom,\u201d essentially removes the FCC as a regulator of the broadband industry and relegates rules that prevented [&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-339546","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\/339546","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=339546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}