{"id":38862,"date":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/as-a-source-of-innovation-an-engine-of-our\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","slug":"as-a-source-of-innovation-an-engine-of-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/as-a-source-of-innovation-an-engine-of-our\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it&rsquo;s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate. This principle is called &ldquo;net neutrality&rdquo; &ndash; and it&rsquo;s under attack. Internet service giants like Comcast and Verizon want to offer premium and privileged access to the Internet for corporations who can afford to pay for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/al-franken\/the-most-important-free-s_b_798984.html\">Al Franken: The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it&rsquo;s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-a6O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}