{"id":4636,"date":"2012-09-26T09:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2012-09-26T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:11:49","slug":"regulatory-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/orange.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"orange\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4637\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Americans pay four times more than the French for Internet and cell phone service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last time I posted on how Americans are being ripped off on the cost of Internet and cellular service, the U.S. ranked around 11th, as I recall, on Internet speed. <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/why-phone-cable-internet-bills-cost-much-130914030.html\">Now we&#8217;re 29th and still falling<\/a>. As the article says, this is because of regulatory capture. It&#8217;s just one of the ways we all pay for the fact that our Congress has been bought.<\/p>\n<p>If Americans only knew anything about the rest of the world. But they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans pay four times more than the French for Internet and cell phone service The last time I posted on how Americans are being ripped off on the cost of Internet and cellular service, the U.S. ranked around 11th, as I recall, on Internet speed. Now we&#8217;re 29th and still falling. As the article says, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Regulatory capture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-issues","category-political-issues","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}