{"id":5076,"date":"2018-10-14T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2018-10-14T05:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T05:12:57","slug":"playing-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5076","title":{"rendered":"playing monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2ncru\" data-offset-key=\"c5cia-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c5cia-0-0\">the internet just happened, just two decades ago or so right? the companies who position themselves to charge customers for data are charging for what exactly? is bandwidth a physical thing? isn&#8217;t that flow an abstract idea? not physical like a bike or shoes. you don&#8217;t pay more and receive more gloves, \u00a0you get more flow of data. they control how narrow or wide your access is, a filter. but it is just a signal like a radio frequency right? \u00a0are they selling something they manufacture?\u00a0isn&#8217;t it like they are middlemen for oxygen? why is it if someone who was independent and successful like ani difranco, who could play massey hall, never got her hits played in high rotation at commercial radio stations yet someone less established but signed to a major label would be added to stations into high rotation across a whole country? spot the difference.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the internet just happened, just two decades ago or so right? the companies who position themselves to charge customers for data are charging for what exactly? is bandwidth a physical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5076\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}