AT&T in Bush’s Pocket
Oh it is all becoming clear.
Recently, AT&T admitted to editing Webcast’s of Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza. What is truly amazing about this story is that “the mistakes of our webcast provider” let the F-bomb drop 20 times, yet they censored negative comments about Bush. Also, in a press release AT&T said this wasn’t the first time things like this has happened! This is such a major violation of 1st Amendment Rights; I think it is called Freedom of Speech? Maybe? Class Action Suit coming soon?
I don’t see how anybody can truly be surprised of actions like this. It is obviously clear that AT&T is a lackey of the Bush Administration. I will point out the whole NSA Warrant-less Wiretaps program that was recently brought to light. It was happening with AT&T and is most likely happening elsewhere.
As an American I am opposed to any domestic surveillance program and there’s a good article on crooks and liars that gives the statistics. 73% of all Americans disapprove of the spying program. That’s a high number and hopefully people in our government will wake up.
What this all comes down to is a law from 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that lays the framework for such “spying” programs. It also has been “udpated” 5 times since 2001, strange huh? It is all very complicated and depressing, please visit the csmonitor’s article on Warant-less Wiretaps Expanded for more information.
I agree that Pearl Jam should have not been edited because they were not warned in advance. I think At&t has the right to control the content on their site. Just make it clear to anyone using the site (like Pearl Jam)in advance that this could happen.
Funny I should come to your blog and find this post, just seconds after talking with my wife about how odd it is that AT&T seems to be getting their hand’s into every aspect of the communication industry. The merge that took place in December last year between AT&T and BellSouth set them up for “Premier Global Communications Company”
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22860
And if you really want to get a bigger look at things, you should check out zeitgeistmovie.com
(it starts out a lil odd, but it really drops the info after the montage of canon fire)
Thanks for the good information. I will check that movie out looks strange!
Plural Politics has very good evaluation of the new fisa amendment
http://eteraz.org/2007/08/11/short-primer-on-new-fisa/
as well as inquiry into a case of actual wiretapping by nsa where they sent their illegal wiretap log to the people they were wiretapping
http://eteraz.org/2007/08/16/govt-sends-record-of-illegal-wiretapping-to-those-it-was-wiretapping/
please add plural politics to your favorite sites
http://eteraz.org/about/
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