{"id":119,"date":"2006-06-20T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/wp\/?p=119"},"modified":"2006-06-20T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:53:17","slug":"200-billion-broadband-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/200-billion-broadband-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"$200 Billion Broadband Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File under &#8216;important if true&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you have a 45 Mbps, bi-directional service to your home, paying around $40? Do you have 500+ channels and can choose any competitive service? You paid an estimated $2000 for this product even though you did not receive it and it may never be available. Do you want your money back and the companies held accountable? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newnetworks.com\/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm\">more<\/a>&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An account of the entire sordid affair is available in a temporarily (until June 22, 2006) free book: <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teletruth.org\/docs\/BROADBANDSCANDAL.pdf\">$200 Billion Broadband Scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/technology\/The_%24200_Billion_Broadband_Scandal_4\">Digg<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File under &#8216;important if true&#8217;: Do you have a 45 Mbps, bi-directional service to your home, paying around $40? Do you have 500+ channels and can choose any competitive service? You paid an estimated $2000 for this product even though you did not receive it and it may never be available. Do you want your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71YpQ-1V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}