Mistake or Not, It's Censorship (Nicole Broduer, The Seattle Times)

Mistake or not, it's censorship

By Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist

Let's test the First Amendment, shall we? "George Bush, leave this world alone." "George Bush, find yourself another home."

I'm still here and employed, my freedom of speech intact. (As I write this, anyway.) Wish I could say the same for Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, who sang those same two lines (to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall") Sunday night in Chicago, where the Seattle-based band was headlining Lollapalooza. The performance was webcast on AT&T's Blue Room entertainment site. But the part where Vedder slammed the president? Cut by AT&T's "content monitor."

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AT&T took until Thursday to admit its monitors had made a mistake; they were only supposed to bleep out excessive profanity or nudity of the Janet Jackson "wardrobe-malfunction" kind. An AT&T spokesman told The Associated Press that it was trying to secure the rights to post the whole song on the Blue Room site.

Are we buying all that? Do we have any choice? That's really the issue here. If anything, Pearl Jam's Chicago-style silencing gave mainstream consumers a taste of what's at stake when media giants like AT&T have a firm grip on what we receive through the myriad technologies at our fingertips.

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The incident raises the issue of "net neutrality," which seeks to address the freedom and access the Internet is supposed to allow us, and the control being harnessed by those who provide access.


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this administration spy on us all censored someone? Say it ain't so!

:sarcasm:

And notice how they are following the Bushiite meme: It was a mistake. Mistakes were made. etc., etc., blah blah blah.

Fuckers! I'm sick of politicians and corporations getting away with not having to take responsibility for anything they do.

Vedder has stolen riffs from older blues artist for years and not credited them.

He should know better.

The used to alter every sentence they translated to support the Communist Party Line.
Every Bushevik with the physical capacity to do so will act in the same manner.
Transmission facilities should be swept clean of Bushevik's if they want a clean transmission.

Lets' see if this gets out without being censored.

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of your idiot ass neo-nazi fascist repukelikkin crew.

You are the worst goddam mutherfuggin pieces of wormedout fecal matter to ever be forced down America's throat. I hope that you, not only get impeached, convicted, thrown into jail without a key, and rot till you die, I hope and pray that there is actually a god, who will toss your rotting remains once they are dead, into the burning pits of hell for all eternity.

MazeMan

of the Constitution, and I'm glad to see you are too! :thumbsup: