{"id":964,"date":"2004-05-21T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2018-08-13T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:00:13","slug":"964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/21\/964\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of the Government, by the Government, for the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNet reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/New+York+classifies+Vonage+as+phone+company\/2100-7352_3-5216639.html?tag=nefd.top\" target=\"new\">the New York Public Service Commission ruled that VOIP company Vonage is a phone company<\/a>, and hence is subject to regulation by&#8230;.the New York Public Service Commission!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the Federal Drug Administration has ruled that Vonage is also a pharmaceutical company, subject to FDA regulation; the TVA has classified vonage as a valley in Tennessee and subject to TVA oversight; and the State of Massachusetts has disaccredited it as a school district and is beginning action to take it over.<\/p>\n<p>Since when do government entities get to actually pick new companies and new technologies to assimilate into their particular bullish labyrinth?  Oh, since always, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet reports that the New York Public Service Commission ruled that VOIP company Vonage is a phone company, and hence is subject to regulation by&#8230;.the New York Public Service Commission! In other news, the Federal Drug Administration has ruled that Vonage is also a pharmaceutical company, subject to FDA regulation; the TVA has classified vonage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23296,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}