{"id":339990,"date":"2017-12-18T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/security-threat-interrupts-fcc-net-neutrality-vote-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2017-12-18T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T06:32:06","slug":"security-threat-interrupts-fcc-net-neutrality-vote-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/security-threat-interrupts-fcc-net-neutrality-vote-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Security threat interrupts FCC net neutrality vote \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2017.12\/thumbnail\/5a32be9bfc7e9305638b4567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 14 Dec, 2017 17:54 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 15 Dec, 2017 08:36 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Moments before the vote on repealing \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared a recess, citing security advice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p><em>\u201cOn advice of security, we need to take a brief recess,<\/em>\u201d FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said abruptly, while reading his opinion favoring the repeal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/general\/live\">The live feed<\/a> from the commission\u2019s hearing shut off.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security police cleared the room, instructing everyone to leave their belongings behind. No information was given on the nature of the security threat, prompting speculation that someone might have called a bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p>Police with dogs searched the room, which was declared cleared and safe shortly after 1 pm. The commission reconvened, and Pai continued with his prepared remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, the FCC voted along party lines to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/413247-fcc-net-neutrality-repeal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeal <em>&#8220;net neutrality&#8221;<\/em><\/a> rules adopted in 2015 under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/413245-fcc-neutrality-vote-security\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 14 Dec, 2017 17:54 Edited time: 15 Dec, 2017 08:36 Moments before the vote on repealing \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared a recess, citing security advice. \u201cOn advice of security, we need to take a brief recess,\u201d FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said abruptly, while reading his opinion favoring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339990","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}