{"id":41954,"date":"2014-11-11T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41954"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:35:39","slug":"obama-pleasantly-susprises-progressives-for-once-on-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/11\/obama-pleasantly-susprises-progressives-for-once-on-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Pleasantly Susprises Progressives (For Once), On Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\" http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141111Uprising\/2014_11_11_craig_aaron.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Craig Aaron <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\" http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141111Uprising\/2014_11_11_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/obama_net_neutrality.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Shocking internet activists all over the nation, President Obama made a declaration aimed at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week on the topic of Net Neutrality. Specifically the President has called on the FCC to protect a free and open interview using the strictest possible regulations. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came near the end of a year when FCC chairman Tom Wheeler had proposed a set of rules yet to be voted on, that would create a two tier system for companies who could pay for faster service, disadvantaging the rest of us. There are 5 commissioners on the FCC, 3 Democrats and 2 Republicans. They are expected to vote on Wheeler&#8217;s proposal some time next year. <\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing the news, GOP Senator Ted Cruz promptly named the President&#8217;s position, &#8220;Obamacare for the Internet.&#8221; Stocks of Comcast and Time Warner &#8211; the major corporate players pushing to end net neutrality &#8211; tumbled by several percent. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Craig Aaron, President and CEO of Free Press, the nation\u2019s leading media reform organization<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepress.net\">www.freepress.net<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking internet activists all over the nation, President Obama made a declaration aimed at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week on the topic of Net Neutrality. Specifically the President has called on the FCC to protect a free and open interview using the strictest possible regulations. The announcement came near the end of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41962,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954\/revisions\/41962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}