{"id":1829,"date":"2013-01-15T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2013-01-15T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:04:27","slug":"why-data-caps-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/15\/why-data-caps-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Why data-caps SUCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uyuIiG4c4Go?showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Brian sez, &#8220;I made an animated presentation about broadband and mobile data caps &#8211; specifically, how they discourage innovation, how the excuses used to justify data caps don&#8217;t hold water, and the real reasons that ISPs and mobile providers are moving towards caps.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is really good stuff. It might need an edit for time, but if you&#8217;ve got 11 minutes, this is what you should spend &#8217;em on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uyuIiG4c4Go\"><br \/>\nWhy Data Caps Suck: The Animated Examination<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogphilo.com\/\">Brian<\/a>!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\"><br style=\"clear:both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7dae3787fb0a23aa04274d305dcdb8dc&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7dae3787fb0a23aa04274d305dcdb8dc&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&amp;adv=wouzn4v&amp;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/ybqJR6p2vEw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via Boing Boing <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/01\/14\/why-data-caps-suck.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/01\/14\/why-data-caps-suck.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian sez, &#8220;I made an animated presentation about broadband and mobile data caps &#8211; specifically, how they discourage innovation, how the excuses used to justify data caps don&#8217;t hold water, and the real reasons that ISPs and mobile providers are moving towards caps.&#8221; This is really good stuff. It might need an edit for time, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/15\/why-data-caps-suck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why data-caps SUCK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_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":[7],"tags":[126,201,6],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-boing-boing","tag-cory-doctorow","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-tv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}