| reply to Asmodeus
Re: Content Monitor???? said by Asmodeus:yeah, they still exist... however, for pearl jam to use the word 'censorship' with respect to a corporation is inaccurate... censorship is a government practice, not a corporate or individual action... for that to be the case, they should said that their speech was repressed, suppressed, or omitted, but not censored... You are absolutely right. Pearl Jam is just commercializing this (under the guise of politicizing this) in an attempt to get headlines. AT&T is not charging people for their service of airing the webcast and they can do whatever they want whenever they want. They don't owe it to anyone to air the full segment. Especially when they are forking out the dollars for the bandwidth and disk space, of course they'll want to trim the proverbial fat.
In this case, the fat is some prepubescent politicization of angst-laden disestablishmentarianism, a phase most people grow out of in their mid-to-late 20s. Not the case with Eddie Vedder, I've noticed, nor the mainstream media.
Besides, Pearl Jam's stock went WAY DOWN in my book after this stunt! How unoriginal can you get? I'm going to go burn my collection of their albums now, good bye. |
