{"id":195046,"date":"2008-08-01T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/01\/trust-gop-to-favor-the-forces-of-evil-comcast-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T22:37:00","slug":"trust-gop-to-favor-the-forces-of-evil-comcast-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/01\/trust-gop-to-favor-the-forces-of-evil-comcast-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust GOP to Favor the Forces of Evil, Comcast Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC took a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080801-reactions-to-fccs-comcast-spanking-come-fast-and-furious.html\">vote to order Comcast to stop throttling internet applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10004339-38.html\">pressure that Republicans put on FCC chairman Kevin Martin to vote for Comcast having the right to throttle applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a question for you, &#8220;Are the Republicans  f%$#ing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">insane<\/span>?!?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I can think of no entity in American life more universally <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">loathed<\/span> than the cable companies, and the Republicans were <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">going on record<\/span> supporting these folks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC took a vote to order Comcast to stop throttling internet applications. What is interesting is the pressure that Republicans put on FCC chairman Kevin Martin to vote for Comcast having the right to throttle applications. Here is a question for you, &#8220;Are the Republicans f%$#ing insane?!?!?&#8221; Seriously, I can think of no entity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195046"}],"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=195046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}