{"id":749608,"date":"2013-05-03T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=478900"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:00:05","slug":"obamas-new-fcc-chairman-isnt-a-reflexive-shill-for-carriers-but-hes-still-a-bad-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749608","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s new FCC chairman isn\u2019t a reflexive shill for carriers, but he\u2019s still a bad pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/03\/fcc-chairman-wheeler-criticism\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/tom-wheeler.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"FCC Chairman Wheeler Criticism\" title=\"FCC Chairman Wheeler Criticism\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>When I first learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/30\/fcc-chairman-nominee-tom-wheeler\/\">President Obama had nominated the former president of CTIA<\/a> and the\u00a0National Cable Television Association to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, my stomach turned: If there's one thing that this country doesn't need, it's yet another former lobbyist appointed to a high position in the United States federal government.\u00a0But after my initial gag reflex wore off, I found myself intrigued by the reaction from many activists whom I'd expected to slam the pick \u2014 Public Knowledge CEO\u00a0Gigi Sohn, for instance, said that Wheeler was likely to champion \"strong open Internet requirements, robust broadband competition, affordable broadband access for all Americans, diversity of voices and serious consumer protections, all backed by vigorous agency enforcement.\" And\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/04\/new-fcc-chairman-is-former-lobbyist-for-cable-and-wireless-industries\/\"><em>Ars Technica<\/em>\u00a0notes<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Cardozo School of Law professor Susan Crawford, who has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/12\/cable-industry-criticism-susan-crawford-289586\/\">long been a fierce critic of the cable industry<\/a>, has also endorsed the nomination.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.wordpress.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif?w=780&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/03\/fcc-chairman-wheeler-criticism\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/CehAu4JxE54\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first learned that President Obama had nominated the former president of CTIA and the\u00a0National Cable Television Association to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, my stomach turned: If there&#8217;s one thing that this country doesn&#8217;t need, it&#8217;s yet another former lobbyist appointed to a high position in the United States [&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":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-390s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749608","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=749608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}