{"id":41477,"date":"2014-03-21T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/ah-comcast-always-good-for-a-laugh.html"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:51:10","slug":"ah-comcast-always-good-for-a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/ah-comcast-always-good-for-a-laugh.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Comcast — always good for a laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nobody is more dedicated to Net Neutrality … and its destruction<\/i> … than Comcast. Except for Verizon, maybe. Or any of their competitors.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I nearly choked when I read this. It's amazing he's able to make that claim without poking someone's eye out from the sudden growth of his nose.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Not A Joke: Comcast Says No One Is More Dedicated To Net Neutrality Than It Is<\/a>
\n A month ago, Comcast and Netflix seemed to be buddy-buddy when the streaming video service agreed to pay a price to end Comcast’s passive-aggressive efforts to make sure its customers had cruddy ac…\n <\/p>\n

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Nobody is more dedicated to Net Neutrality … and its destruction … than Comcast. Except for Verizon, maybe. Or any of their competitors. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins I nearly choked when I read this. It's amazing he's able to make that claim without poking someone's eye out from the sudden growth of his nose.\ufeff … Continue reading “Ah, Comcast — always good for a laugh”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131002,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/netflix-will-show-up-natively-on-comcast-cable-boxes.html","url_meta":{"origin":41477,"position":0},"title":"Netflix will show up natively on Comcast cable boxes","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Jul-16 5:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We actually access Netflix presently through a native app in our Sony BluRay player, but having it added seamlessly to the Comcast X1 box is even more convenient. 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