{"id":2320,"date":"2006-05-03T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2006-05-03T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T13:56:34","slug":"why_you_should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2140850\/fr\/rss\/\">Tim Wu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Internet is largely meritocratic in its design. If people like instapundit.com better than cnn.com, that&#8217;s where they&#8217;ll go. If they like the search engine A9 better than Google, they vote with their clicks. Is it a problem, then, if the gatekeepers of the Internet (in most places, a duopoly of the local phone and cable companies) discriminate between favored and disfavored uses of the Internet? To take a strong example, would it be a problem if AT&#038;T makes it slower and harder to reach Gmail and quicker and easier to reach Yahoo! mail?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the fight over &#8220;network neutrality,&#8221; Washington&#8217;s current obsession. The debate centers on whether it is more &#8220;neutral&#8221; to let consumers reach all Internet content equally or to let providers discriminate if they think they&#8217;ll make more money that way.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Wu: The Internet is largely meritocratic in its design. If people like instapundit.com better than cnn.com, that&#8217;s where they&#8217;ll go. If they like the search engine A9 better than Google, they vote with their clicks. Is it a problem, then, if the gatekeepers of the Internet (in most places, a duopoly of the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320"}],"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=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}