{"id":3987,"date":"2006-07-11T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/07\/11\/battle-lines-drawn-over-net-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T23:11:37","slug":"battle-lines-drawn-over-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/battle-lines-drawn-over-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle lines drawn over net neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tComputerworld has a pretty good summary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9001694&#038;pageNumber=1\">Net Neutrality issues today:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn a May 17 letter to congressional leaders, 35 manufacturers &#8212; including Alcatel, Cisco, Corning,and Qualcomm &#8212; said there\u2019s no evidence that broadband providers now block or impair competing content. The Internet doesn\u2019t need the burden of new regulations, the letter said, adding that passing a bill risks &#8220;hobbling the rapidly developing new technologies and business models of the Internet with rigid, potentially stultifying rules.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The network equipment vendors are the closest thing we have to an informed and neutral party in this debate, so their opinion should carry a lot of weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld has a pretty good summary of the Net Neutrality issues today: In a May 17 letter to congressional leaders, 35 manufacturers &#8212; including Alcatel, Cisco, Corning,and Qualcomm &#8212; said there\u2019s no evidence that broadband providers now block or impair competing content. The Internet doesn\u2019t need the burden of new regulations, the letter said, adding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/battle-lines-drawn-over-net-neutrality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battle lines drawn over net neutrality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-12j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","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=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}