[Peace-discuss] censoring political speech (why we need Net Neutrality)

Stuart Levy slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Sat Aug 11 14:30:32 CDT 2007


Though not quite a peace issue, this *is* a political communications issue,
and shows especially clearly why communications companies need to be
legally required to carry traffic without regard to content.

Account of AT&T censorship of a webcast of a Pearl Jam concert,
suppressing some anti-Bush lyrics while letting the rest of the
transmission go through:

   http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=221604



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