{"id":74602,"date":"2017-12-18T01:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/with-fcc-net-neutrality-ruling-the-u-s-could-lose-its-lead-in-online-consumer-protection"},"modified":"2017-12-18T01:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:42:28","slug":"with-fcc-net-neutrality-ruling-the-u-s-could-lose-its-lead-in-online-consumer-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/with-fcc-net-neutrality-ruling-the-u-s-could-lose-its-lead-in-online-consumer-protection","title":{"rendered":"With FCC Net Neutrality Ruling, the U.S. Could Lose Its Lead in Online Consumer Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/with-fcc-net-neutrality-ruling-the-u-s-could-lose-its-lead-in-online-consumer-protection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet may be an international system of interconnecting networks sharing a rough global consensus about the technical details of communicating through them \u2013 but each country manages its own internet environment independently. As the U.S. debate about the role of government in overseeing and regulating the internet continues, it\u2019s worth looking at how other countries handle the issue.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As the U.S. weakens its protections for internet users, it risks falling behind the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\" class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/sascha-meinrath\/\">Sascha Meinrath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/nathalia-foditsch\/\">Nathalia Foditsch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/the-conversation-us\/\">The Conversation US<\/a> on December 14, 2017 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/with-fcc-net-neutrality-ruling-the-u-s-could-lose-its-lead-in-online-consumer-protection\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/with-fcc-net-neut...rotection\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet may be an international system of interconnecting networks sharing a rough global consensus about the technical details of communicating through them \u2013 but each country manages its own internet environment independently. As the U.S. debate about the role of government in overseeing and regulating the internet continues, it\u2019s worth looking at how other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}