{"id":3354,"date":"2014-09-09T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/YourFriendPaul.com\/wp\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2017-05-12T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:14:22","slug":"battle-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/battle-net.html","title":{"rendered":"Battle For The Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/battleforthenet.com\/sept10th\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/d0d5913a0552de5d72dc653fac7c6d44\/tumblr_inline_nbmc8udmhy1r1kl7d.gif\" alt=\"Battle for the Net\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved \u201cFast Lane\u201d sites.<\/p>\n<p>Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and enlightening stuff that makes the Internet so much cooler than mainstream Cable TV. What if the only news sites you could reliably connect to were the ones that had deals with companies like Comcast and Verizon?<\/p>\n<p>On September 10th, just a few days before the FCC\u2019s comment deadline, public interest organizations are issuing an open, international call for websites and internet users to unite for an \u201cInternet Slowdown\u201d to show the world what the web would be like if <em>Team Cable<\/em> gets their way and trashes net neutrality. Net neutrality is hard to explain, so our hope is that this action will help SHOW the world what\u2019s really at stake if we lose the open Internet. If you\u2019ve got a website, blog or tumblr, get the code to join the #InternetSlowdown here: https:\/\/battleforthenet.com\/sept10th<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else, here\u2019s a quick list of things you can do to help spread the word about the slowdown: <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.fightforthefuture.org\/post\/96020972118\/be-a-part-of-the-great-internet-slowdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/tumblr.fightforthefuture.org\/post\/96020972118\/be-a-part-of-the-great-internet-slowdown<\/a> Get creative! Don\u2019t let us tell you what to do. See you on the net September 10th!<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/battleforthenet.com\/\">Battle For The Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved \u201cFast Lane\u201d sites. Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}