{"id":643616,"date":"2013-02-22T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=340756"},"modified":"2013-02-22T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:15:29","slug":"white-house-petition-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking-gets-100000-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643616","title":{"rendered":"White House petition to legalize cell phone unlocking gets 100,000 signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/cellphone-unlocking-petition-340756\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/smartphones-347.jpg?w=650&amp;h=437&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cellphone Unlocking Petition\" title=\"T-Mobile Unlocked iPhone\" \/><\/a><\/center>In a surprising development, it seems that a lot of people don&#8217;t like being told they can&#8217;t unlock their cell phones. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/02\/21\/172614930\/petition-to-legalize-unlocking-cellphones-meets-white-houses-100k-requirement\"><em>NPR<\/em> reports<\/a> that a petition posted on the White House website asking the Obama administration to &#8220;champion a bill that makes [cell phone] unlocking permanently legal&#8221; has garnered more than 100,000 signatures, which means that the White House by its own rules must now issue a formal response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/cellphone-unlocking-petition-340756\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/dXSdzyW0VI0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising development, it seems that a lot of people don&#8217;t like being told they can&#8217;t unlock their cell phones. NPR reports that a petition posted on the White House website asking the Obama administration to &#8220;champion a bill that makes [cell phone] unlocking permanently legal&#8221; has garnered more than 100,000 signatures, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}