{"id":178049,"date":"2019-03-22T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/22\/i-would-suggest-changing-your-name-to-rectal-bleeding-or-pedophile-or-alex-jones\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:12:00","slug":"i-would-suggest-changing-your-name-to-rectal-bleeding-or-pedophile-or-alex-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/22\/i-would-suggest-changing-your-name-to-rectal-bleeding-or-pedophile-or-alex-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"I Would Suggest Changing Your Name to Rectal Bleeding, or Pedophile, or Alex Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It appears that, because of the poor reputation of their members, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/03\/cable-lobby-erases-cable-from-its-name-but-cant-erase-all-the-bad-memories\/\">American Cable Association changing its name to America&#8217;s Communications Association<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Kind of like when Comcast became Xfinity, or when Blackwater became Xe became Academi, or when Nazis became the Alt-Right.<\/p>\n<p>When your behavior is so reprehensible that you have to change your name, perhaps you should be looking at something more substantial than just changing the optics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Cable lobbyists don&#8217;t want to be called cable lobbyists anymore. The nation&#8217;s top two cable industry lobby groups have both dropped the word &#8220;cable&#8221; from their names. But the lobby groups&#8217; core mission\u2014the fight against regulation of cable networks\u2014remains unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>The National Cable &amp; Telecommunications Association (NCTA) got things started in 2016 when it <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2016\/09\/biggest-cable-lobby-drops-the-word-cable-from-its-name\/\">renamed itself<\/a> NCTA-The Internet &amp; Television Association, keeping the initialism but dropping the words it stood for. The group was also known as the National Cable Television Association between 1968 and 2001. <\/p>\n<p>The American Cable Association (ACA) is the nation&#8217;s other major cable lobby. While NCTA represents the biggest companies like Comcast and Charter, the ACA represents small and mid-size cable operators. Today, the ACA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancable.org\/american-cable-association-changes-name-to-aca-americas-communications-association\/\">announced<\/a> that it is now called America&#8217;s Communications Association or &#8220;ACA Connects,&#8221; though the ACA&#8217;s website still uses the americancable.org domain name.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, there is a reason that everyone hates your clients .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that, because of the poor reputation of their members, American Cable Association changing its name to America&#8217;s Communications Association.&nbsp; Kind of like when Comcast became Xfinity, or when Blackwater became Xe became Academi, or when Nazis became the Alt-Right. When your behavior is so reprehensible that you have to change your name, perhaps &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,367,538,374],"class_list":["post-178049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-internet","tag-organizing","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}