Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's show

[greggh]

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/2 ... tts-i.html

Yesterday, I was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel. I eventually did talk about gadgets, but in light of AT&T's shocking and baffling announcement of their plans to filter the internet, I thought that a much more interesting and important topic.

So that's what I talked about.

As you can see from the video, the crew ended up scrubbing the interview about half-way through. Figuring that might happen, I asked my steely-nerved friend Richard Blakeley to tape the first take. I wanted to make sure that we had a record of the event, primarily to ensure that AT&T would have no reason to try to bury the interview entirely—the same reason I am running this clip now, while discussion about what to do with my segment in post-production is surely underway.

[davijordan]

Years ago before the internet, there was a movie about ma bell taking over the world by knnowing what was said in phone calls. I do not remember the name of it. Fiction becomes truth. Comcast is blocking certain emails that are from linux sites. I could not get some of my k12osn emails and that there was a problem with my account. I happen to google the issue and found out that they were in fact blocking such emails. When I asked them about it, they gave me the usually corporate rhetoric. They are also blocking other linux listservs. They do not seem to be blocking ms listservs.
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