{"id":349,"date":"2012-11-16T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-11-16T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:31:14","slug":"why-cell-phones-went-dead-after-hurricane-sandy-bloomberg-15-november-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/11\/16\/why-cell-phones-went-dead-after-hurricane-sandy-bloomberg-15-november-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy &#8211; Bloomberg, 15 November 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is attempting to legally bar Congress and the FCC from exerting any authority over its networks, claiming that the First Amendment protects the company\u2019s \u201ceditorial discretion.\u201d (I am among a large group of current and former government officials who this week filed a brief opposing that startling argument.)<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-11-15\/why-cell-phones-went-dead-after-hurricane-sandy.html?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=260a1d74ef-News_Law_Friday_Nov_16_201211_16_2012&amp;utm_medium=email\">Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is attempting to legally bar Congress and the FCC from exerting any authority over its networks, claiming that the First Amendment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/11\/16\/why-cell-phones-went-dead-after-hurricane-sandy-bloomberg-15-november-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","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\/349","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\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}