{"id":2268,"date":"2006-04-05T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2006-04-05T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T14:47:22","slug":"powell_warns_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"Powell Warns Net Neutrologists Not to Be Naive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Powell Warns Net Neutrologists Not to Be Naive\">Michael Powell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Former FCC chairman Michael Powell is up on the stage at the Freedom to Connect conference right now, and he warns the tech elite crowd here not to<br \/>\nbe naive about the dangers of asking Congress for legislation on Net<br \/>\nNeutrality. As he explains:<\/p>\n<p>The legislative process does not work well when it has a weak understanding<br \/>\nof innovation and tech policy. You are talking about 535 members who need<br \/>\nto to get this. They have a very shallow understanding [of Net Neutrality].<br \/>\nIf you go give them a quiz about the seven layers of the Internet, good<br \/>\nluck.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Lazurus has more on the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/04\/05\/BUGNEI3E4U1.DTL\">legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Powell: Former FCC chairman Michael Powell is up on the stage at the Freedom to Connect conference right now, and he warns the tech elite crowd here not to be naive about the dangers of asking Congress for legislation on Net Neutrality. As he explains: The legislative process does not work well when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}