After concluding our Sunday night show at Lollapalooza, fans informed us that portions of that performance were missing and may have been censored by AT&T during the “Blue Room” Live Lollapalooza Webcast.
When asked about the missing performance, AT&T informed Lollapalooza that portions of the show were in fact missing from the webcast, and that their content monitor had made a mistake in cutting them.
During the performance of “Daughter” the following lyrics were sung to the tune of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” but were cut from the webcast:
– “George Bush, leave this world alone.” (the second time it was sung); and
– “George Bush find yourself another home.”
So, we need content monitors? Let’s hear it for AT&T…music critics.
I’m sure AT&T is right, it was just a random coincidence and a pure mistake that the content monitor just happened to remove the portion of the concert negative to our idiot in chief.
I talk to a lot of old people and one thing they all share are stories about AT&T. One told me how they detected he had an extra phone in the house, and literally forced their way into the house to find and remove said phone, all while he was working and his wife was home alone with children.
AT&T and the people who work there care little about their customers, I never understood why their customers give them any money at all.
2. ‘One told me how they detected he had an extra phone in the house, and literally forced their way into the house to find and remove said phone”
I wanted to clarify this for our younger readers. There was once a time when the AT&T’s monopoly was so strong that you were not allowed to have two or more phones connected to the same line. If you wanted to add a second line, you had to pay AT&T to send a technician to come to your house to install it, you’d have pay a lease for that second phone from AT&T every month, plus you’d have to pay AT&T every month for the privilege of having that second phone connected to a single line.
I know this sounds bizarre, but I am not talking about a second phone line. I’m talking about what everyone currently has for free, multiple phones connected to the same line.
Don’t even get me started on the horror that were party lines. (They had nothing to do with parties!)
Yeah AT&T, like most telecommunications companies who oppose “net neutrality” and argue that the public can trust them not to censor, will keep their promise not to censor. This was just content management by a content monitor. And I am the man in the moon.
Seems fascism peeked above the event horizon there. Did you see it?
Good, I don’t need anybody else using free thought or interpretation of others’ expression of their free thought. As Commander-in-Chief, I will take the responsibility of telling all Amerikans what they should think and feel.
After all, I’m a soverin legacy President, and from a nucular family.
#4
Don’t even get me started on the horror that were party lines. (They had nothing to do with parties!)
Hey, kinda showing your age there…….wait…..oops… 🙂
Scary company…
So willing, nea eager, to kiss the ass of the new tyrant. Ma Bell screws everybody and now adds to the level of fascist ignorance in the world.
So what the fuck are you going to do about it? Nothing? Write the company, write your elected officials, kick some ass.
Good start is
http://www.congress.org
which will keep you informed and easily contact your elected officials.
This is only the beginning folks.
Just a note: Disconnecting the ringer on the aux phones hid them from the phone company.
6. “Hey, kinda showing your age there…….wait…..oops…”
It’s worse, not only am I old enough to remember them, I’m old enough to have actually had one. My mom got so sick of never being able to use the phone (because the other party was always using it) that she called up Ma Bell and told to cancel our phone service. Or as she put it, take their phone and stick it up their ass. They saw the light and gave us our own unshared line.
#10, SN —
Mom 1
AT&T 0
Way to go, Mom! She’d get along great with mine!
#6 & 10,
I also grew up with a “party line”. I don’t feel so quaint now. In fact I think our ring was “long, long, short” and there were six or seven other parties on our line. But during the ’50s people didn’t telephone like they do today. If you had a message you called, gave the message, then hung up. No one spent hours at a time talking about nothing.
Of course, long distance was a real hassle. The operators had to set everything up manually. I remember one time my father took over half an hour to get connected to a city 300 miles away for a five minute call. And it would have cost $5 or 6 per minute for the actual call too.
So yes, competition has immensely improved telephone service and quality. And for you young pups, yes, that was a monopoly service.
The first telephone in my house was on a party line too and I recall our ring was also two long and one short.
Back then, Bell considered a distance of 20 miles ‘long distance’ and charged us a fortune for those long distance calls.
For a long time, it was also ‘illegal’ to purchase a telephone and put it on their lines because we might ‘damage the lines’. Instead, we paid monthly to rent the telephone and it likely cost us many, many thousands of dollars for a simple telephone.
As long as we’re playing ‘old guy’, I’m so old, I still remember when people would laugh at you if you tried to sell them drinking water. What a ridiculous concept!
Its common in many rural areas they still use a form of a “party line” called multiplexing. They can serve up to (I think) seven homes on a single copper pair. When all you can get is a dial up internet connection, it will seriously degrade your connect speeds.
let’s see, nsa is tapped right into at&t main network, lyrics offensive to nsa’s boss are censored
if other things were dropped, i’d say it was a coincidence, but i’m guessing not
face it folks, the freedoms you claim to be willing to send soldiers to die for you to protect are being taken from you, and you just don’t even care
Perhaps it’s time to nationalize all the telcos and provide universal, fiber access everywhere !!! The private, toll-taking profit mongers will never do so !!!