Wednesday, May 27, 2009
twee2blog: Democracy AT&T-style
All your election R belong to us! Democracy by AT&T RT @freepress: RT @TimKarr: NYTimes: http://twurl.nl/zxefcj #AmericanIdol
UPDATE 5/28/09: Did AT&T throw the election? We'll never know because the results won't be made public. As for the charge that it provided power-texting equipment and instructions to supporters of one candidate but not the other, AT&T claims just a few bad apples, saying,
As long as AT&T has a role that joins delivery of content and control of content, such mistakes will be made. By AT&T.
We need structural separation now. The delivery of our data is too important to be left to entities with motive, means and opportunity to mess with it in transit.
UPDATE 5/28/09: Did AT&T throw the election? We'll never know because the results won't be made public. As for the charge that it provided power-texting equipment and instructions to supporters of one candidate but not the other, AT&T claims just a few bad apples, saying,
"a few local AT&T employees, caught up in the enthusiasm of rooting for their hometown contestant, they brought a small number of demo phones with them and provided texting tutorials to those who were interested . . ."Sounds almost like what AT&T said when it censored anti-Bush portions of a Pearl Jam concert, just a few bad apples, in that case, "a mistake by a webcast vendor."
As long as AT&T has a role that joins delivery of content and control of content, such mistakes will be made. By AT&T.
We need structural separation now. The delivery of our data is too important to be left to entities with motive, means and opportunity to mess with it in transit.
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It was risky, but sending store reps to parties in Arkansas was the only possible way for producers to fix the show...
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