{"id":1488,"date":"2005-06-24T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2005-06-24T00:04:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T00:04:25","slug":"broadcast_flag_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast Flag Not in Federal Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bayosphere.com\/blog\/dangillmor\/062205\/broadcast_flag\">Dan Gillmor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Good news for Silicon Valley and consumers: The infamous &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/broadcastflag\/\">Broadcast Flag<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; digital restrictions on playback of broadcast video &#8212; is still dead, it seems, at least for the moment.<br \/>\nWhen it looked several days ago as though Hollywood would try to sneak the flag into a big appropriations bill, several alert organizations including the <a href=\"http:\/\/eff.org\/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge<\/a> rallied citizens to the cause &#8212; to tell senators that they shouldn&#8217;t do this. Apparently, <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.eff.org\/site\/Advocacy?page=UserActionInactive&#038;id=145\">they didn&#8217;t slip this into the bill<\/a>, and that&#8217;s cause for celebration.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evidently, quite a few people contacted their Senators on this matter, which is wonderful.  This is a great example of the last minute special interest schemes that go on all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gillmor: Good news for Silicon Valley and consumers: The infamous &#8220;Broadcast Flag&#8221; &#8212; digital restrictions on playback of broadcast video &#8212; is still dead, it seems, at least for the moment. When it looked several days ago as though Hollywood would try to sneak the flag into a big appropriations bill, several alert organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}