AT&T censors Pearl Jam & blocks lyrics on the net
 

The fuckheads at AT&T did another step towards intenet censorship by censoring Pearl Jam lyrics. t turns out that the parts that were blocked were during the song, "Daughter," as Pearl Jam had substituted some lyrics. They sang, to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," the words, "George Bush, leave this world alone"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-br...n_b_59687.html

If nobody protests we soon will live at the grace of three telephone companies.

I really liked this part....

So how shall we interpret this? According to the band, the explanation from AT&T was to blame the censorship on their "content monitor." Blaming a junior staffer is the standard excuse when an organization, such as a political campaign, wants to avoid taking responsibility for a policy or action that leads to something bad or embarrassing, and so fobs the bad deed off on some junior person to take the fall.

The larger question is, why do they have a "content monitor?" This isn't TV, where the Federal Cussing Commission is looking over everyone's shoulder. There isn't a rule about what content can get streamed over the Internet, at least not yet.

What is a content monitor? Someone sitting on the "bleep" button? Why would they have something like that on the Internet?

They posted the original vodeo now

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/0...s_n_59807.html

oh man....:upsidedow