{"id":8954,"date":"2024-05-19T18:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2024-05-19T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:09:28","slug":"net-neutrality-restored-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/19\/net-neutrality-restored-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality Restored, For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eli, Joe, Steve and James discuss the FCC finally restoring net neutrality, the state of the MBTA and the ongoing Steward Healthcare saga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BRL2UkvHjbg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Links we discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2024\/04\/fcc-restores-net-neutrality-rules-that-ban-blocking-and-throttling-in-3-2-vote\/\">FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/05\/12\/metro\/mbta-budget-gap\/\">After decrying \u2018disinvestment\u2019 in the MBTA, proposals by Healey and the Legislature fail to fully fund the agency<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/2024\/05\/report-paychecks-held-up-for-some-steward-employees-in-wake-of-bankruptcy-filing.html\">Report: Paychecks held up for some Steward employees in wake of bankruptcy filing<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2024\/02\/02\/steward-health-history-deals-massachusetts-hospitals\">How Steward Health Care went from hospital savior to the precipice of failure<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/backbone_campaign\/16101589983\">Backbone Campaign<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0 DEED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli, Joe, Steve and James discuss the FCC finally restoring net neutrality, the state of the MBTA and the ongoing Steward Healthcare saga.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,32,7,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-slider","category-net-neutrality","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/net-neutrality-dont-block-my-net.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}