{"id":5915,"date":"2014-03-14T15:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2014-03-14T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:25:46","slug":"us-gives-up-internet-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5915","title":{"rendered":"US Gives Up Internet Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has finally pulled out of ruling the Internet. The job is now left up to the non-government agency, ICANN. It&#8217;s a good move.<\/p>\n<p>Well, then again, as has been shown around the world, when governments want to, they can shut down the Internet. I believe this act is more of a formality than any surrender of the Internet. If the power elite who rule this country (or any country) wanted to dispense with the Internet, it would be switched off in a nanosecond. So, again, I view this move as a formality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/us-to-relinquish-remaining-control-over-the-internet\/2014\/03\/14\/0c7472d0-abb5-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_print.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has finally pulled out of ruling the Internet. The job is now left up to the non-government agency, ICANN. It&#8217;s a good move. Well, then again, as has been shown around the world, when governments want to, they can shut down the Internet. I believe this act is more of a formality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5916,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}