AT&T, net neutrality, censorship
From the official website PearlJam says:
Even the ex-head of AT&T, CEO Edward Whitacre, whose company sponsored our troubled webcast, stated just last March that fears his company and other big network providers would block traffic on their networks are overblown..
"Any provider that blocks access to content is inviting customers to find another provider." (Marguerite Reardon, Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: March 21, 2006, 2:23 PM PST).
But what if there is only one provider from which to choose?
If a company that is controlling a webcast is cutting out bits of our performance, not based on laws, but on their own preferences and interpretations, fans have little choice but to watch the censored version.
What happened to us this weekend was a wake up call, and it's about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band.
AT&T, like other telcos who say you can "just trust them" not to censor content in the absence of mandatory net neutrality
Labels: AT AND T, net neutrality, PearlJam, telco
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