{"id":7860,"date":"2010-05-03T13:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/03\/michele-bachmann-should-shut-u\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:19:50","slug":"michele-bachmann-should-shut-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/michele-bachmann-should-shut-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Bachmann should shut up about a topic she knows nothing about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann might be the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/10\/michele_bachmann_dumb_as_a_bri.php\">stupidest person <\/a>who can still breathe.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDo you know what net neutrality is?  It is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions by Internet Service Providers or governments on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network_neutrality\">Teh Wiki<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President Barack Obama once said of Net Neutrality that he is &#8220;a big believer in net neutrality. I campaigned on this. I continue to be a strong supporter of it.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2010\/04\/michele_bachman_80.php\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Therefor, Michele Bachmann, who clearly knows nothing about Net Neutrality and therefore should shut up about it until she at least learns what it is, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;. net neutrality &#8230; is essentially censorship of the Internet. This is the Obama administration advocating censorship of the Internet. Why? They want to silence the voices that are opposing them &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2010\/04\/michele_bachman_80.php\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2010\/04\/michele_bachman_80.php\"><br \/>\nRead about this in more detail here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/11\/the_battle_for_bachmanns_seat.php\">people in Michele Bachmann&#8217;s congressional district <\/a>realize that she wants to take away their internet as they now know it?<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/photography.zvan.net\/\">Ben<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann might be the stupidest person who can still breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3677,306,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-22M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}