AT&T Lied About Censorship of Pearl Jam

[kpete]

AT&T Lied About Censorship of Pearl Jam
by: Matt Stoller
Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 10:55:20 AM EDT
This matters.

A crew member who worked on a show webcast by AT&T confirmed that there was a policy in place to remove artists' political comments from shows before they were webcast.

"I can definitively say that at a previous event where AT&T was covering the show, the instructions were to shut it down if there was any swearing or if anybody starts getting political. Granted, they didn't say to shut down any Anti-Bush comments or anything specific to any point of view or party, but 'getting political' was mentioned."

This directly contradicts AT&T's earlier statements that the censorship of Pearl Jam was an accident.

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=5897C7F0B935454B9F14D7B2D2272D0D?diaryId=792

[Tesha]

1. "Shocked! Shocked I tell you!" (NT)

[helderheid]

2. They LIED??? No way!!

:sarcasm:

[Beelzebud]

3. And they expect us to trust them with a non-neutral net, and their NSA spy rooms...

Fuck AT@T.

If the USA ever went completely Nazi, companies like AT@T would be building the furnaces.

[VenusRising]

4. AT&T have been complicit in spying against Americans.

It doesn't surprise me at all that they censored political speech.

I'm so glad that when I canceled my AT&T account that I told them just what I thought of them spying on Americans.

Every time I see an AT&T commercial on television, I always add the words "to the government" after their "Your World Delivered" slogan.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

5. Reminds me of a movie...

"The President's Analyst" with James Coburn starring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President's_Analyst


Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn), a psychiatrist, is chosen by the U.S. Government to act as the President’s top-secret personal psychoanalyst, against the advice of Henry Lux, the director of the all-male-under-5'6" Federal Bureau of Regulation (FBR). Dr. Schaefer is assigned a comfortable home connected to the White House by underground tunnel, and is on-call at any/all hours to fit the President's hectic schedule. However, the President's Analyst has one problem: there is no one he can talk to about the president's ultra-top-secret and personal problems. As he steadily becomes overwhelmed by stress, Schaefer begins to feel that he is being watched everywhere (which is actually true) until he becomes clinically paranoid; he even suspects his sweet girlfriend Nan (Joan Delaney) of spying on him, which she is, as an agent of the Central Enquiries Agency (CEA).



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Eventually, he goes on the lam with the help of a typical American family who defend him against tiny agents from the FBR, under orders to liquidate him as national security risk. Schaefer escapes with help of a hippie tribe led by the "Old Wrangler"(Barry McGuire), as spies from all over the world attempt to kidnap him for all the secret information the President has confided to him. Schaefer is protected by Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), the CEA assassin who had vetted Dr. Schaefer while undergoing psychoanalysis, and Kropotkin (Severn Darden), Don's trusted opposite from the KGB, but is eventually kidnapped by Canadian Secret Service agents masquerading as a British pop group, and finally by TPC, otherwise known as The Phone Company. Masters and Kropotkin use their superspy abilities to come to Schaefer's rescue, and help him to foil a TPC plan to enslave the human race. They emerge victorious from the ensuing bloodbath, but months later, as Dr. Schaefer and his spy friends are enjoying a Christmas reunion, robot executives from TPC look on approvingly.

[spanone]

6. bu$hco has turned lying into high art.

[FormerDittoHead]

7. Oh boy! SOMEONE'S going to be held RESPONSIBLE! (NOT) n/t

:sarcasm: