{"id":23040,"date":"2020-11-03T00:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b5607cad6ef9955cb99e7d2f5ff0246f"},"modified":"2020-11-03T00:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:56:52","slug":"trump-fcc-turned-the-internet-into-a-wild-west-for-the-telecoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/11\/03\/trump-fcc-turned-the-internet-into-a-wild-west-for-the-telecoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump FCC Turned The Internet Into A &#8216;Wild West&#8217; For The Telecoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, the movement for internet freedom won an important victory when the Federal Communications Commission reclassified the internet as a common carrier, making it like a utility that everyone should have equal access to without discrimination. That was quickly reversed in 2017 under the new chair of the FCC, Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, who deregulated the internet giving the government no authority to oversee the internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T. I speak with Josh Stager of the Open Technology Institute about the ongoing fight to protect the internet and what we need to do next. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/trump-fcc-turned-the-internet-into-a-wild-west-for-the-telecoms\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, the movement for internet freedom won an important victory when the Federal Communications Commission reclassified the internet as a common carrier, making it like a utility that everyone should have equal access to without discriminati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23041,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions\/23041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}