{"id":645212,"date":"2013-03-04T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=359495"},"modified":"2013-03-04T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:10:10","slug":"white-house-supports-petition-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645212","title":{"rendered":"White House supports petition to legalize cell phone unlocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/smartphone-unlocking-white-house-359495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/iphone-jailbreak-typophone.jpg?w=650&amp;h=435&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Smartphone Unlocking White House\" title=\"Unlocked iPhone\" \/><\/a><\/center>A petition asking the Obama administration <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/cellphone-unlocking-petition-340756\/\">to reverse <\/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\u00a0recently <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/29\/smartphone-unlocking-petition-310663\/\">garnered more than 100,000 signatures<\/a>, prompting a formal response from the government. The White House on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/response\/its-time-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking\">came out in support of the petition<\/a>, noting that consumers ought to be allowed to unlock their devices if they so choose. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/smartphone-unlocking-white-house-359495\/?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\/7FWZfSrbQfQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition asking the Obama administration to reverse a decision made by the Librarian of Congress last fall to deny consumers the right to unlock their phones\u00a0and bring them to different carriers\u00a0recently garnered more than 100,000 signatures, prompting a formal response from the government. The White House on Monday came out in support of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645212","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}