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Thursday, August 09, 2007

AT&T Censorship at Lollapalooza

Over the weekend AT&T gave us a glimpse of their plans for the Web when they censored a Pearl Jam performance that didn't meet their standard of "Internet freedom."

During the live Lollapalooza Webcast of a concert by the Seattle-based super-group, the telco giant muted lead singer Eddie Vedder just as he launched into a lyric against President George Bush. The lines -- "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush find yourself another home" were somehow lost in the mix.

"What happened to us this weekend was a wake up call, and it's about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band," Pearl Jam band members stated in a release following the incident.


Watch the censored video:

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posted by John Good @ 6:07 PM 

1 Comments:

Blogger Sewmouse said...

This morning, AT&T is backpedalling like mad, claiming that it was an "outside vendor" who did the monitoring and censoring and that they did NOT instruct them to censor things that were negative toward Dear Decider.

Right. *snicker* BUSTED.

title="comment permalink">August 10, 2007 11:15 AM  

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