{"id":1231,"date":"2018-03-18T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2018-03-18T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T23:10:43","slug":"open-internet-pledge-from-u-s-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/03\/18\/open-internet-pledge-from-u-s-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Internet Pledge from U.S Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen United States cities have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/equity\/2018\/03\/net-neutrality-executive-orders-fcc-mayors-bill-de-blasio\/555344\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged to pressure Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to honor net neutrality<\/a>, in response to last year&#8217;s\u00a0Federal Communications Commission\u2019s decision to eliminate requirements for equal access to the Internet, so now ISPs can block content, throttle speeds to some sites or services, or give preferential treatment to others. According to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, &#8220;We\u2019re gonna use our economic power to force the hands of these companies. We\u2019re gonna build a movement among other cities.&#8221; It will interesting to see if this movement really takes off. Perhaps it may even lead to a resurgence of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/12\/05\/technorealism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technorealism<\/a>. We&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen United States cities have pledged to pressure Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to honor net neutrality, in response to last year&#8217;s\u00a0Federal Communications Commission\u2019s decision to eliminate requirements for equal access to the Internet, so now ISPs can block content, throttle speeds to some sites or services, or give preferential treatment to others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45,12],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-social-movements","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}