{"id":646448,"date":"2013-03-12T22:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=371568"},"modified":"2013-03-12T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:44:20","slug":"georgia-legislature-kills-bill-that-would-have-clamped-down-on-municipal-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646448","title":{"rendered":"Georgia legislature kills bill that would have clamped down on municipal broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/12\/georgia-municipal-broadband-bill-defeated-371568\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/communist-wi-fi.jpg?w=650&amp;h=576&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Georgia Municipal Broadband\" title=\"Free Wi-Fi Communism\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/14\/georgia-broadband-legislation-327617\/\">dire threat of public broadband lives on in Georgia<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/03\/08\/bill-that-would-have-banned-public-broadband-in-georgia-has-failed\/\"><em>Consumerist<\/em> reports<\/a> that Georgia&#8217;s state legislature has shot down a bill that would have barred rural municipalities from building their own public broadband networks in areas where at least one residential building had an Internet connection speed of 1.5Mbps or higher.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/2013\/02\/13\/2355347\/rural-towns-up-in-arms-over-broadband.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Macon Telegraph\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a>\u00a0last month\u00a0that legislators from some rural towns in Georgia were \u201cup in arms\u201d over the proposed legislation and claimed that they needed to build their own broadband networks because \u201ccompanies simply will not bring the highest-speed Internet to their residents because it doesn\u2019t turn a profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/12\/georgia-municipal-broadband-bill-defeated-371568\/?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\/570hBF1yA2U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dire threat of public broadband lives on in Georgia. Consumerist reports that Georgia&#8217;s state legislature has shot down a bill that would have barred rural municipalities from building their own public broadband networks in areas where at least one residential building had an Internet connection speed of 1.5Mbps or higher.\u00a0The\u00a0Macon Telegraph\u00a0reported\u00a0last month\u00a0that legislators from [&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-646448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646448","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=646448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}