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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] AT&T is evil, reason number 53462
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:40:16 -0400


Well, apparently, you're not the only one who thinks net neutrality and
the AT&T/Pearl Jam "censorship" nonsense is related:


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070817-fcc-commissioner-pearl-jam-censorship-linked-to-net-neutrality-fight.html

"In the interview, Copps followed other network neutrality supporters
in seizing on the incident as a prime example of the need for
government regulation of companies like AT&T, in order to prevent
them from censoring political speech on the larger Internet. This is
in spite of the fact that from a purely technical standpoint, AT&T's
censorship of Vedder on its own webcast, which is technically content
that AT&T "owns" and is responsible for, has little apparent
connection to network neutrality. After all, not even the most ardent
net neutrality proponent would suggest that a company shouldn't be
able to censor its own streaming webcasts—content that it funded and
that it owns."

But I still maintain that confusing the two - censorship and network
neutrality - is dangerous. To do so simply obscures the real issues that
lay behind the slogan.

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