{"id":893,"date":"2006-04-25T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=893"},"modified":"2006-04-25T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:48:00","slug":"network-neutrality-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Network Neutrality is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;mon, I knew Len Kleinrock, the <i>real<\/i> father of the Internet. Bob Braden was one of the advisors of the UCLA Computer Club. Of course I support Net Neutrality! And so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Internet providers like AT&#038;T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet&#8217;s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&#038;T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&#038;T more. Amazon.com doesn&#8217;t have to outbid Barnes &#038; Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians don&#8217;t think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&#038;T&#8217;s CEO, who openly says, &#8220;The internet can&#8217;t be free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The free and open Internet is under seige&#8211;can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.civic.moveon.org\/save_the_internet<\/p>\n<p>A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/alerts\/savetheinternet.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;mon, I knew Len Kleinrock, the real father of the Internet. Bob Braden was one of the advisors of the UCLA Computer Club. Of course I support Net Neutrality! And so&#8230; Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=893\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}