{"id":497,"date":"2017-06-04T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulbegley.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-06-04T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:40:43","slug":"ajit-pai-fcc-chairman-is-not-our-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Ajit Pai (FCC Chairman) is not our friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are watching the FCC sell out the consumers it is supposed to protect. Ajit Pai is the head of the FCC. He&#8217;s a smart guy, but he is not the friend of the consumer, he&#8217;s a former Communication Industry law partner. He&#8217;s selling Network Neutrality like he&#8217;s on an infomercial (it&#8217;s not what he says it is). Now they are proposing &#8220;direct to voicemail&#8221; calls.<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion is to get a Google Voice account and configure it as the voicemail for your cell phone. It will automatically detect &#8216;SPAM&#8217; calls and you have the option to block calls (or block all calls&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Network World &#8211; technical background and reference links.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3199565\/security\/tell-the-fcc-you-dont-want-robo-voicemail-spammy-direct-to-voicemail-messages.html<\/p>\n<p>Consumers Union statement<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/consumersunion.org\/news\/fcc-urged-to-protect-consumers-from-unwanted-telemarketing-and-debt-collection-voicemails\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are watching the FCC sell out the consumers it is supposed to protect. Ajit Pai is the head of the FCC. He&#8217;s a smart guy, but he is not the friend of the consumer, he&#8217;s a former Communication Industry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YWFc-81","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}