When Pearl Jam played the Nightwatchman's home city of Chicago recently their fans who could not attend the final evening of the Lollapalooza festival experienced something very interesting during the AT&T webcast. Instead of hearing lead singer Eddie Vedder sing "George Bush leave this world alone" they heard silence. They experienced good old fashioned, almost Orwellian, censorship. But the corporation quickly learned that they'd messed with the wrong band. As more reports and supportive editorials sprang up; Pearl Jam themselves spoke up on their website and AT&T first called it an error and then later admitted it wasn't the first time it had happened...
Learn about net neutrality and then fight for it...
Learn about net neutrality and then fight for it...
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