{"id":8065,"date":"2011-03-31T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2011-03-31T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:36:54","slug":"att%e2%80%99s-secret-fcking-loophole-if-you-want-out-of-an-internet-contract-just-curse-the-raw-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/03\/att%e2%80%99s-secret-fcking-loophole-if-you-want-out-of-an-internet-contract-just-curse-the-raw-story\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T\u2019s secret f*cking loophole: If you want out of an Internet contract, just curse | The Raw Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"guyonphone-flickrcommons1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2011\/03\/guyonphone-flickrcommons1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Guyonphone flickrcommons1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/03\/31\/att-secret-fcking-loophole-if-you-want-out-of-an-internet-contract-just-curse\/\" >AT&amp;T\u2019s secret f*cking loophole: If you want out of an Internet contract, just curse | The Raw Story<\/a>: &#8220;With telecom giant AT&amp;T rolling out limitations and additional fees on how much information its Internet users can access, it seems the company is bracing for an influx of anger.<\/p>\n<p>In a little-noticed contract tweak recently, AT&amp;T customer service representatives have been empowered to cancel the contract of any customers who behave in an abusive manner towards them.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, when those top two percent of users get massive bandwidth bills at the end of May, and they call in with full-bore nerd rage, AT&amp;T will have an easy solution: cut them off entirely, &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T\u2019s secret f*cking loophole: If you want out of an Internet contract, just curse | The Raw Story: &#8220;With telecom giant AT&amp;T rolling out limitations and additional fees on how much information its Internet users can access, it seems the company is bracing for an influx of anger. In a little-noticed contract tweak recently, AT&amp;T &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/03\/att%e2%80%99s-secret-fcking-loophole-if-you-want-out-of-an-internet-contract-just-curse-the-raw-story\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AT&#038;T\u2019s secret f*cking loophole: If you want out of an Internet contract, just curse | The Raw Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-265","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}