{"id":3851,"date":"2006-05-02T02:56:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/05\/02\/the-senate-takes-a-stand-for-freedom\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T02:56:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T09:56:38","slug":"the-senate-takes-a-stand-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/the-senate-takes-a-stand-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senate takes a stand for freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Senate took a step toward preserving the freedom to innovate yesterday with the introduction of a telecom bill that puts the wild claims of the net neuts <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Net+neutrality+missing+from+telecom+bill\/2100-1028_3-6067153.html?tag=nefd.lede\">in perspective:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAbsent from the legislation are any regulations related to &#8220;Net neutrality,&#8221; also known as network neutrality, that companies such as Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, Intel and Microsoft have been lobbying for during the past few months. Instead of handing the Federal Communications Commission extensive powers to police violations&#8211;an idea defeated in a House of Representatives committee vote last week&#8211;the FCC would merely be required to prepare annual reports on any problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s appropriate for now: <em>show us a problem and we&#8217;ll fix it, but buzz off if all you have is hysteria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Stevens is no dummy.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate took a step toward preserving the freedom to innovate yesterday with the introduction of a telecom bill that puts the wild claims of the net neuts in perspective: Absent from the legislation are any regulations related to &#8220;Net neutrality,&#8221; also known as network neutrality, that companies such as Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, Intel and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/the-senate-takes-a-stand-for-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Senate takes a stand for freedom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-107","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}