{"id":80975,"date":"2015-02-27T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T08:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=80975"},"modified":"2015-02-27T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T08:17:02","slug":"net-neutrality-given-the-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/80975\/net-neutrality-given-the-thumbs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Net neutrality given the thumbs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to impose strict new regulations on Internet service providers.<\/p>\n<p>The regulatory agency voted 3-2 Thursday in favor of rules aimed at enforcing what&#8217;s called &#8220;net neutrality.&#8221; That&#8217;s the idea that service providers shouldn&#8217;t intentionally block or slow web traffic, creating paid fast lanes on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules say that any company providing a broadband connection to your home or phone would have to act in the public interest and conduct business in ways that are &#8220;just and reasonable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Much of industry opposes the regulations, which it says constitutes dangerous government overreach. The rules are expected to trigger lawsuits, which could drag out for several years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on net neutrality<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Net neutrality not SA\u2019s problem \u2013 for now\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/65400\/net-neutrality-not-sas-problem-for-now\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Net neutrality not SA\u2019s problem \u2013 for now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Investors join in move against net neutrality\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/57123\/investors-join-in-move-against-net-neutrality\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Investors join in move against net neutrality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tech giants say no to net neutrality\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/57053\/tech-giants-say-no-to-net-neutrality\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tech giants say no to net neutrality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to impose strict new regulations on Internet service providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,113,6966],"class_list":["post-80975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80977,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80975\/revisions\/80977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}