{"id":4795,"date":"2007-07-13T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2007-07-14T01:38:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T08:38:57","slug":"take-action-now-to-help-ensure-the-internet-stays-neutral-and-democratized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"NEW VIDEO: Take Action NOW to Help Ensure The Internet Stays Neutral and Democratized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t pay attention or speak up, until after it was <i>too late<\/i> to save our democracy. Let&#8217;s not make the same mistake when it comes to saving the world&#8217;s greatest democratizer ever, the <i>Internet<\/i>, for the people.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4654\">we ran a &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; video<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/SaveTheInternet.com\">SaveTheInternet.com<\/a>. It explained the sitch, as we asked you to guess at the voices of the two characters in the amusing JibJab-style video. Nobody guessed correctly, so we&#8217;ll disclose that now. The voices were performed by yours truly (Brad Friedman), and Mimi Kennedy of both <i>Dharma &#038; Greg<\/i> and <a href=\"http:\/\/PDAmerica.org\">Progressive Democrats of America<\/a> fame.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an FCC deadline of July 16th is quickly approaching. The latest video from <a href=\"http:\/\/SaveTheInternet.com\">SaveTheInternet.com<\/a>, while not nearly as funny as the previous one, gives you marching orders on how to <i>take action<\/i>.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/savetheinternet.com\/yourstory\"><strong>send your opinion to the FCC right here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We already lost democracy, and will likely be fighting for years to get it back from the private corporate interests who have claimed ownership of it. Let&#8217;s not let that same thing happen with The Internets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w-H3uczQPz8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w-H3uczQPz8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t pay attention or speak up, until after it was too late to save our democracy. Let&#8217;s not make the same mistake when it comes to saving the world&#8217;s greatest democratizer ever, the Internet, for the people. Several weeks ago we ran a &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; video by SaveTheInternet.com. It explained the sitch, as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}