{"id":419846,"date":"2017-12-20T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b08746c77e1c9ed4cd921fcb78e311bc"},"modified":"2017-12-20T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:10:01","slug":"the-internet-is-giving-a-voice-to-those-on-the-margins-losing-net-neutrality-will-take-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=419846","title":{"rendered":"The internet is giving a voice to those on the margins \u2013 losing net neutrality will take it away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to argue that the internet as it exists now is not &#8220;neutral&#8221;, with some companies and websites creating tech empires and online monopolies. But the decision of US telecoms watchdog, the Federal Communications Commission, to remove regulations that overtly guarantee net neutrality \u2013 the basic principle that all information on the internet should be treated equally and should be equally accessible \u2013 will certainly not improve matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to argue that the internet as it exists now is not &#8220;neutral&#8221;, with some companies and websites creating tech empires and online monopolies. But the decision of US telecoms watchdog, the Federal Communications Commission, to remove regulations that overtly guarantee net neutrality &ndash; the basic principle that all information on the internet should be treated equally and should be equally accessible &ndash; will certainly not improve matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419847,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419846\/revisions\/419847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}