{"id":6904,"date":"2015-02-05T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2015-02-05T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:13:11","slug":"fcc-chairman-tom-wheeler-this-is-how-we-will-ensure-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/02\/fcc-chairman-tom-wheeler-this-is-how-we-will-ensure-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tom-wheeler-ft-200x100-e1423013041431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet wouldn\u2019t have emerged as it did, for instance, if the FCC hadn\u2019t mandated open access for network equipment in the late 1960s. Before then, AT&amp;T prohibited anyone from attaching non-AT&amp;T equipment to the network. The modems that enabled the internet were usable only because the FCC required the network to be open.<\/p>\n<p>Companies such as AOL were able to grow in the early days of home computing because these modems gave them access to the open telephone network.<\/p>\n<p>I personally learned the importance of open networks the hard way. In the mid-1980s I was president of a startup, NABU: The Home Computer Network. My company was using new technology to deliver high-speed data to home computers over cable television lines. Across town Steve Case was starting what became AOL. NABU was delivering service at the then-blazing speed of 1.5 megabits per second\u2014hundreds of times faster than Case\u2019s company. \u201cWe used to worry about you a lot,\u201d Case told me years later.<\/p>\n<p>But NABU went broke while AOL became very successful. Why that is highlights the fundamental problem with allowing networks to act as gatekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>While delivering better service, NABU had to depend on cable television operators granting access to their systems.<\/p>\n<p>Read Article:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\">FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality | WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet wouldn\u2019t have emerged as it did, for instance, if the FCC hadn\u2019t mandated open access for network equipment in the late 1960s. Before then, AT&amp;T prohibited anyone from attaching non-AT&amp;T equipment to the network. The modems that enabled the internet were usable only because the FCC required the network to be open. Companies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[279,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}