Comments on: Did AT&T Censor Pearl Jam’s Lollapalooza WebCast?

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:05:36 +0000

It kills me every time I see people commenting about “They (AT&T) apologized, are making good, it wasn’t AT&T”, etc, etc.

Anyone who thinks this was a “mistake” by a third party vendor, given AT&T’s history with the Bush regime, wiretapping, NSA, et al, AND taking the subject matter which was censored into consideration, REALLY needs to pull their head out of the sand.

I mean, come on, people. Wake up.

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By: More Cowbell

More Cowbell — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:58:15 +0000

[...] I like to do my own censoring and definitely take exception to the man doing it for me - which seems to have been the case during the live broadcast of the show by [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:28:41 +0000

@Jacob - Let me clarify my point. The action of censorship was wrong by the entertainment company working on behalf of AT&T. AT&T however recognized the error in judgment, and made a point to let the world know they made an error and are willing to do their best to correct this error by offering the download in its entirety, completely uncensored.

If there's a bone to pick with censorship, why not focus on Clear Channel - how do you think Kanye West feels every time he hears Goldigger and they omit the last line of the song. There's a company that won't budge on its stance.

Me, as an individual, am willing to give AT&T the benefit of the doubt on this. They made a mistake, they apologized to the public and made the offer to make it up. Censorship is wrong, but to blame AT&T for an over-zealous 3rd party vendor is just as ignorant.

By: Heather Marie

Heather Marie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:21:08 +0000

The timing of the censorship was too coincidental–this was no mistake. Sounds like a poorly-informed AT&T employee got a little too zealous in the editing room. At least the company has the good PR sense to apologize about what appears to be a disgusting attempt at political censorship in an arena that should be free of such confines: good ole’ rock & roll.

By: G

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:08:15 +0000

For those of you who wish bands such as Pearl Jam would just “shut up and play” I ask you this: Who else in modern (pop if you will) culture is encouraging people to contemplate what democracy was and what democracy is becoming, the dangers of restricting the 1st A, the danger of not questioning your government???

By: timothey

timothey — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:05:31 +0000

Of course they censored, and until we stand up for net neutrality (http://www.unboundedition.com/content/view/1958/50/)
this crap is only going to get worse. It’s scary.

By: Reality

Reality — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:27:13 +0000

American policy is to take democracy out of the internet, other countries, it’s citizens minds etc.
Why should a concert be any different?

By: Reality

Reality — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:13:03 +0000

This blog is censored. Wake up people.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:03:17 +0000

When was Pearl Jam last relevant??
I’m inclined to believe that that time was this past Sunday when they evidently still had enough relevance to draw 100,000 people to their performance.

In the case of At&T, people might be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt after something like this but let’s face it… we all know what AT&T has been up to. Trust, once lost, is not easily won back.

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Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:40:00 +0000

[...] gets what it wants – as “a mistake by a webcast vendor.” To be fair in this instance, GigaOM reports that AT&T says it regretted the incident and blamed it on a webcast editor, adding [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:29:06 +0000

The actual company responsible for censoring Pearl Jam was:

Davie Brown Entertainment 2225 S. Carmelina Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 Phone (310) 979-1980 Fax (310) 820-7277

Let them know how you feel !

By: Chloe

Chloe — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:20:04 +0000

Hey AT&T! Leave us kids alone!

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