{"id":11834,"date":"2010-06-20T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2565"},"modified":"2010-06-20T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:50:15","slug":"the-internet-as-civil-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/the-internet-as-civil-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet As Civil Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tIf you&#8217;re one of the millions of Americans who use broadband Internet at home, you probably take for granted how deeply it\u2019s woven into your life. It has transformed the way we pay our bills, seek romance, procrastinate, and keep abreast of politics and the lives of friends. The pre-Google  era has become a distant, hazy memory.<\/p>\n<p>\tIf anything, many of us often half-wish we could escape the Internet&#8217;s clutches. The constant connectivity can be a shackle as much as a convenience. Our habits have even triggered a serious debate about whether all that clicking and toggling is warping our brains.<\/p>\n<p>\tBut as the Internet grows more and more important to modern life, some are now asking a different kind of question: Should broadband access be a civil right?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/06\/20\/one_nation_online\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re one of the millions of Americans who use broadband Internet at home, you probably take for granted how deeply it\u2019s woven into your life. It has transformed the way we pay our bills, seek romance, procrastinate, and keep abreast of politics and the lives of friends. The pre-Google era has become a distant, &#8230; <a title=\"The Internet As Civil Right?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/the-internet-as-civil-right\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}