{"id":135,"date":"2006-04-24T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-09-27T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T17:53:03","slug":"astroturfing-network-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Astroturfing Network Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to write a story about how the big telephone companies have launched a web site<\/a> to deceive people about the impact of network neutrality. But Blue Meme<\/a> has already done the work so well, I’m gonna link to it and go watch TV. Thanks, Blue Meme.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, go to Free Press<\/a> and Save The Internet<\/a> to learn more and take action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to write a story about how the big telephone companies have launched a web site to deceive people about the impact of network neutrality. But Blue Meme has already done the work so well, I’m gonna link to it and go watch TV. Thanks, Blue Meme. Oh yeah, go to Free Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1153,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1153","url_meta":{"origin":135,"position":0},"title":"The Wall Street Journal And Network Neutrality","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/16\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"An article in the Wall Street Journal is reporting that prominent advocates of Network Neutrality are reversing or softening their positions on the concept of treating all Internet traffic equally. 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