My Sentiments Precisely!
And more of us ought to give much more than serious consideration to this, more than simple lip service, because this has the potential to become something more than AT&T or our government could have ever planned for…
“AT&T Admits It Censored Other Bands”
Jenny Toomey, executive director of the Future of Music Coalition, has expressed her feelings about this and I agree completely;
“It’s clear AT&T has not made a mistake. They or the companies they’ve hired to monitor Webcasts have engaged in a clear and consistent pattern of silencing free speech,” Jenny Toomey, executive director of the Future of Music Coalition, said in a statement.
The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. And the group took AT&T’s latest admission of censoring other bands as an opportunity to point out the need for new Net Neutrality laws to prevent AT&T and other phone companies from having too much control over content.
“This censorship speaks to the heart of plans by AT&T and other big telecoms to set themselves up as gatekeepers of Internet content,” Toomey continued. “If AT&T can’t be trusted to Webcast the political stage banter of a few rock bands, why would we turn the keys to the Internet over to them? Their promises to not block Internet content now ring hollow.”
When the time comes and that last ebook you took months to develop, or that last piece of software you took years to piece together to function correctly, have finally hit your market and you can’t get enough visitors to your web sites to justify your expenses and you lose your investment capital because AT&T felt your products violated something in their opinion and then blocked your customers from viewing them - you’ll finally come to the conclusion that AT&T was lying from jumpstreet about making mistakes.
Don’t leave our Pres out of this - Marguerite ends her piece with this: “Could the Bush administration really be so sensitive about what a few rock bands are saying that they pressure AT&T to censor their performances? If that’s the case, then I’m really worried. Because this country has bigger problems to deal with than Eddie Vedder or any other rock star slamming George W. Bush.”
You didn’t include anything in that new ebook that might be misconstrued as anti-Bush or critical of Bush, now did you?
And we have to live with this fear why??? Because we’ve been lied to, that’s why - and we’re not doing enough about it - that’s why!!!
Technorati Tags - Net Neutrality AT&T Censors Free Speech First Amendment Dies AT&T Lies
Related Stories
POSTED IN: Personal Thoughts, Web Happenings
1 opinion for My Sentiments Precisely!
Blog Marketing, Blog Promotion for Newbies » Blog Archive » $4 A Gallon…
Aug 15, 2007 at 6:04 am
[…] me to be just as pathetic as the Oil companies - here - visit me at Workboxers - its […]
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: