Business Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus gets $92 million severance after 2.5 years on the job Xeni Jardin
gwot One of the CIA's waterboarding torturers called himself "The Preacher" and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions Cory Doctorow
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
Business Fool me twice: New York State commutes Charter's death sentence after Charter promises to stop breaking its promises Cory Doctorow
corruption Charter will pay $174.2m for defrauding New Yorkers over data speeds, the largest settlement ever paid by a US ISP Cory Doctorow
Business Coalition of small cable operators calls for antitrust investigation into Comcast (Trump agrees) Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Everybody hates their cable company, unless the company is Google, or the city, or a tiny mom-and-pop Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery UPDATED: Charter broke its broadband promises to New York State and "gaslighted" about it, now it might lose its license Cory Doctorow
Business Big Cable asks FCC to ban states' investigations into lies about broadband speed Cory Doctorow
telcoms New York Attorney General's lawsuit lays out years of Time-Warner "fraud" against their customers Cory Doctorow
Copyfight When the FCC asked about unlocking set-top boxes, the Copyright Office ran to the MPAA Cory Doctorow
corruption New York Attorney General to Time Warner: your Internet is "abysmal" and "troubling" Cory Doctorow
copyright The twisted history of the Happy Birthday song—and the copyright shenanigans that keep it profitable Glenn Fleishman