{"id":339,"date":"2006-05-17T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/339"},"modified":"2006-05-17T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T19:42:57","slug":"save-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/339","title":{"rendered":"Save the Internet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"58\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Save the Net Now\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/images\/sti_button.gif\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/huffpost\/20060513\/cm_huffpost\/020951\">Is this a Sci-Fi horror story?<\/a> Nope, it doesn&#8217;t look like it. In fact, congress is voting next week on the issue of Net Neutrality which, despite its difficult to decipher name, is a vital issue to everyone who uses the internet today. Here&#8217;s the deal: AT&#038;T and other big telephone companies who transfer internet data over their lines want a piece of the pie that makes big tech companies like Google, Yahoo, and other companies rich. The tech companies basically use the data lines for &#8220;free,&#8221; while network users pay for a connection.<\/p>\n<p>The way the Telecom companies want to fix this problem is by ending this Net Neutrality and charging people who want to post things on the internet a fee in to <em>not<\/em> slow down the speed at which data is sent to the page&#8217;s customer. This is dangerous, though, because it will mean the the Telecom companies will be able to pick and choose their own &#8220;favorite&#8221; tech companies, and charge them variable rates. They may even charge the little guys who just want to build a startup from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link above to find out how you can help. Start by signing the petition to help save the internet, then call your congressman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a Sci-Fi horror story? Nope, it doesn&#8217;t look like it. In fact, congress is voting next week on the issue of Net Neutrality which, despite its difficult to decipher name, is a vital issue to everyone who uses the internet today. Here&#8217;s the deal: AT&#038;T and other big telephone companies who transfer internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-rambling","category-hci-topic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}