AT&T censored Pearl Jam webcast
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AT&T has an entertainment website called Blue Room. It recently webcast a performance by the band Pearl Jam. The monitors hired by AT&T deleted two ad lib lyrics: "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find yourself another home."
Not the most sophisticated political analysis, perhaps, but political speech nonetheless, the most important kind to protect.
AT&T reacted nimbly. The offending website put up a notice in very uncorporate language: "We screwed up on Sunday night when we deleted some lyrics from a live Pearl Jam performance that we were webcasting..."
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...8-7df2f00b53da
This issue is becoming important very quickly.
In the UK, the BBC is planning on putting all their shows online after they have been shown. Now the UK internet service providers (ISPs) are threatening to "shape" BBC internet traffic (shaping is where the internet traffic is looked at, and depending on what the information is, it may be allowed to go on its way or it may be delayed). http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...cle2856766.ece
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