{"id":1948,"date":"2005-11-16T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T09:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2005-11-16T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T09:35:57","slug":"searls_saving_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"Searls: Saving the Net: How to Keep Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/article\/8673\">Doc Searls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future. Even optimists agree that the Net&#8217;s future as a free and open environment for business and culture is facing many threats. We can&#8217;t begin to cover them all or cover all the ways we can fight them. I believe, however, that there is one sure way to fight all of these threats at once, and without doing it the bad guys will win. That&#8217;s what this essay is about.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief outline of the article. If you want to go straight to the solution, skip to the third section:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scenario I: The Carriers Win\n<li>Scenario II: The Public Workaround\n<li>Scenario III: Fight with Words and Not Just Deeds<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2005\/11\/16#savingTheNetFromThePipeholders\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls: The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future. Even optimists agree that the Net&#8217;s future as a free and open environment for business and culture is facing many threats. We can&#8217;t begin to cover them all or cover all the ways we can fight them. I believe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}