| reply to bmfan
Re: AT&T's Blue Room Censors Pearl Jam Whether such censorship is technically legal is not really an issue with me. What troubles me is what is being censored, by whom, and why.
I always try and view our Country's actions the way a 'founding father' might, if alive today. When Jefferson returned from France, after the American Revolution and was immediately informed, by a panicked official, of an armed insurrection in the North over one tax or another. His reply was: 'Good.'
What has happened since 2000 is extremely troubling. Old as I am, I've seen nothing like it except during some African coups I've followed. It is one thing for the local café to censor an act for language the owner dislikes, it is another for AT&T to censor an act for political content (true or not) it fears the President may dislike.
I once voted for Richard Nixon, and I see the USA holding political prisoners in Cuba for the first time (I know) in its history. Whether, for example, such people are so under the letter of the law, I don't see as important. Whether AT&T has obeyed the letter of the law, I don't see as important. |
