{"id":182470,"date":"2017-11-17T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.rm.gfolkdev.net\/?p=182470"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:51:07","slug":"help-defend-net-neutrality-this-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/help-defend-net-neutrality-this-giving-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Defend Net Neutrality This Giving Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update\u2014November 29, 2017:<\/strong> thanks to you, we sold 77 books on Giving Tuesday\u2014and raised US$385 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Thank you very much!<\/p>\n

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Back in the late 1980s, when I was a student in library school, we debated what the dawning “information superhighway” should be. Some classmates saw it as a huge boon to the global economy. Others argued that “information wants to be free,” and money shouldn’t taint public access to the Internet’s information bounty.<\/p>\n

I’ve worked at both ends of the spectrum\u2014as a librarian and as a publisher\u2014and have always taken the middle road: “Information doesn’t want to be free–it just wants to be used.”<\/em> Although the pendulum has swung back and forth, we’ve managed to find a middle road that works well enough for most of us.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

It all may change in the US if the FCC’s proposed changes to Net Neutrality are approved.<\/p>\n

Companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T would likely transform their policies from customer-unfriendly to completely hostile to the free and open exchange of information. It could jeopardize your career, your kids’ education, free speech, independent journalism, and just about every aspect of contemporary life.<\/p>\n

That’s why this Giving Tuesday<\/strong>\u2014Rosenfeld Media is donating US$5 for every book purchased<\/strong> to the\u00a0Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>. Please consider making a purchase\u2014or simply\u00a0donate to the EFF<\/a>\u00a0directly.<\/p>\n

\"giving<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with links to learn about Net Neutrality and the FCC’s proposed order from two of our great nation’s most trusted and respected sources: the\u00a0American Library Association<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Oatmeal<\/a>. Please read them and spread the word. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update\u2014November 29, 2017: thanks to you, we sold 77 books on Giving Tuesday\u2014and raised US$385 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Thank you very much! Back in the late 1980s, when I was a student in library school, we debated what the dawning “information superhighway” should be. Some classmates saw it as a huge boon to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186060,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182470\/revisions\/186060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}