August 10, 2007
News Bits!
- Our market is bringing world markets down with us. . . all because of the subprime mortgage market.
- Universal Music joins the move away from the use of DRM (except through iTunes).
- Preview of the nation without net neutrality: AT&T censors Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza performance online.
- Parisians provided with 10,000 self-service bikes: Citizens bike downhill to work and take mass transit home.
- The Perseid Meteor shower may be visible late this weekend.
- Hannah Montana's songs lead kids to porn?
- Rupert Murdoch may let WSJ.com be viewed for free when he takes over.
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The Pearl Jam thing had nothing to do with Net Neutrality - it was plain old censorship. In addition, AT&T has come out and said it was a mistake and wrong, and they have apologized. More importantly though, to hell with AT&T/Cingular/SBC/corporate-logo-of-the-week! They are the I-35 of telecommunications: just when you find it in your heart to give them another chance, they screw you over like you knew they would.
danimal - Activists are using the online censorship of Pearl Jam as an example of what telecommunications giants may do if net neutrality is not passed.
Right. But this is not an example of abuse of Net Neutrality - this is plain old censorship, just like can happen on TV or radio, newspapers, etc. AT&T's ability to censor Pearl Jam's political viewpoints has nothing to do with the fact they own many of the "series of tubes" - it's because they were the ones filming the show.