{"id":135514,"date":"2017-12-04T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T01:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135514"},"modified":"2017-12-04T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:42:06","slug":"can-tell-isp-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/can-tell-isp-lying.html","title":{"rendered":"How can you tell when an ISP is lying?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When its marketing people are talking.<\/p>\n

Either …<\/p>\n

… Net Neutrality regulations under Title II status were a horrifyingly bad thing for the networking industry, suppressing investment, quashing innovation, and making a great case to Republicans for getting rid of such regulation.<\/p>\n

… or …<\/p>\n

… Net Neutrality had little to no effect, with robust ISPs continuing to invest and grow and innovate, and making a great case for Investors to keep driving up the company stock price.<\/p>\n

Of course, Charter can have it both ways, because the GOP was always going to get rid of Net Neutrality once it came to power, and who cares if someone notices Charter saying contradictory things because what’s anyone going to do about it?<\/p>\n


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\nCharter brags about big speed boost\u2014after saying Title II stalled investment<\/a><\/span>
\nCharter told investors that net neutrality regs “didn’t really hurt us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When its marketing people are talking. Either … … Net Neutrality regulations under Title II status were a horrifyingly bad thing for the networking industry, suppressing investment, quashing innovation, and making a great case to Republicans for getting rid of such regulation. … or … … Net Neutrality had little to no effect, with robust … Continue reading “How can you tell when an ISP is lying?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,3,28,374],"tags":[1284,1335],"class_list":["post-135514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","category-media-moguls","category-money-politics","tag-fcc","tag-netneutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/crossed-fingers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/ted-cruz-is-a-dolt-obamacare-for-the-internet-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":135514,"position":0},"title":"Ted Cruz Is A Dolt (Obamacare for the Internet Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-14 6:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ted, do you actually pay attention to what comes out of your mouth (or in this case, your fingers (or, more likely in this case, your nerdy intern Brandon who runs your Twitter account for you's fingers))?I'm sure that someone, somewhere (possibly your generous Comcast donors, perhaps obvious anagram Reince\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":47925,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-the-net-neutrality-political-debate.html","url_meta":{"origin":135514,"position":1},"title":"On the Net Neutrality political debate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-14 7:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"To be fair, it's not clear to me that this is strictly a partisan issue. Plenty of Dems are in bed with major corporate players here, too. 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