{"id":1275,"date":"2015-05-26T20:48:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2015-05-26T20:48:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:48:06","slug":"what-charter-time-warner-cable-deal-could-mean-for-consumers-startribune-com-26-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/05\/26\/what-charter-time-warner-cable-deal-could-mean-for-consumers-startribune-com-26-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"What Charter-Time Warner Cable deal could mean for consumers &#8211; StarTribune.com, 26 May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some think differently. Cable companies already have scant competition for supplying Internet service, said Susan Crawford, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard.&#8221;High-speed Internet access today is a utility&#8221; that&#8217;s essential for education and job searching, Crawford noted. &#8220;Yet in American cities, cable is the dominant provider of that private utility and can charge whatever it wants to whoever it wants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/charter-deal-seeks-to-keep-cable-consolidation-on-track\/304957581\/\">What Charter-Time Warner Cable deal could mean for consumers &#8211; StarTribune.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some think differently. Cable companies already have scant competition for supplying Internet service, said Susan Crawford, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard.&#8221;High-speed Internet access today is a utility&#8221; that&#8217;s essential for education and job searching, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/05\/26\/what-charter-time-warner-cable-deal-could-mean-for-consumers-startribune-com-26-may-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}