{"id":859,"date":"2006-06-13T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/net-neutrality-fair-and-balanced-update\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:03","slug":"net-neutrality-fair-and-balanced-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/net-neutrality-fair-and-balanced-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality: Fair and Balanced Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like this Net Neutrality debate will be raging on for some time to come.\u00a0 Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/12\/AR2006061201493.html\" target=\"_blank\">Senate is beginning its third day of hearings<\/a> on draft telecom legislation after the House passed a bill last week that largely ignored the Net Neutrality supporters&#39; concerns.\u00a0 Most supporters of the &quot;Net Neutrality&quot; concept want to ensure that network providers do not create (or enable) Internet content monopolies.\u00a0 However, there are a host of other issues that must be considered before such a &quot;concept&quot; could be (or should be?) drafted into law.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network_neutrality\">Wikipedia page on Net Neutrality<\/a> does a nice job of summarizing the diversity of issues.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Also, here are a couple of opposing views on the topic: <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/11\/AR2006061100707.html\">Editorial Against Net Neutrality<\/a>    <strong>versus<\/strong>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsournet.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsournet.org\/img\/blog_tile1-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like this Net Neutrality debate will be raging on for some time to come.\u00a0 Today, the Senate is beginning its third day of hearings on draft telecom legislation after the House passed a bill last week that largely ignored the Net Neutrality supporters&#39; concerns.\u00a0 Most supporters of the &quot;Net Neutrality&quot; concept want to ensure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-technology-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}