AT&T executives claim they would never interfere with web content.
On Sunday, when Pearl Jam was performing the song “Daughter” during the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, the band broke into a version of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall.” Reworking the lyrics of the classic rock song, Vedder sang, “George Bush, leave this world alone” and “George Bush, find yourself another home.”
AT&T: “We have policies in place with respect to editing excessive profanity, but AT&T does not censor performances.”
And, of course, Vedder’s lyrics about Bush, which were not profane, did in fact get censored.
Pearl Jam released a statement on the censorship incident:
“This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media. AT&T’s actions strike at the heart of the public’s concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears.."
2007-08-10
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