{"id":740600,"date":"2013-03-05T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=360638"},"modified":"2013-03-05T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T21:48:42","slug":"minnesota-senator-plans-bill-to-make-cellphone-unlocking-legal-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740600","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota senator plans bill to make cellphone unlocking legal again"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/05\/cellphone-unlocking-legalization-bill-360638\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"637\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/amy-klobuchar.jpg?w=650&#038;h=637&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C637\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cellphone Unlocking Legalization Bill\" title=\"Sen. Amy Klobuchar\" \/><\/a><\/center>Just one day after <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/smartphone-unlocking-white-house-359495\/\">the White House got behind efforts<\/a> to make unlocking cellphones legal again, <a href=\"http:\/\/klobuchar.senate.gov\/newsreleases_detail.cfm?id=339914&amp;\">Senator\u00a0Amy Klobuchar<\/a> (D \u2014 MN) vowed to introduce a bill this week that will \"get rid of the ban on unlocking cell phones.\" Both\u00a0Klobuchar and the White House were responding directly to an online petition that urged the government\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/cellphone-unlocking-petition-340756\/\">to reverse\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/24\/smartphone-unlocking-illegal-303627\/\">a decision made by the Librarian of Congress last fall to deny consumers the right to unlock their phones<\/a>\u00a0and bring them to different carriers. In announcing her new legislation,\u00a0Klobuchar said that \"consumers should be free to choose the phone and service that best fits their needs and their budgets\" and that \"we need to make sure consumers are getting a fair deal and today\u2019s announcement is a welcome step towards implementing consumer-friendly policies in the wireless industry.\"<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/jBMZxKMVNBo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after the White House got behind efforts to make unlocking cellphones legal again, Senator\u00a0Amy Klobuchar (D \u2014 MN) vowed to introduce a bill this week that will &#8220;get rid of the ban on unlocking cell phones.&#8221; Both\u00a0Klobuchar and the White House were responding directly to an online petition that urged the government\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Fa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}