Don't Gimme No Lip

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My hope is that this is an aberration, but we may have seen a preview of the Internet of the future over the weekend as

AT&T ... censored a Pearl Jam performance that didn’t meet their standard of "Internet freedom."

During the live Lollapalooza Webcast of a concert by the Seattle-based super-group, the telco giant muted lead singer Eddie Vedder just as he launched into a lyric against President George Bush. The lines — “George Bush, leave this world alone” and “George Bush find yourself another home” were somehow lost in the mix.

Since it's clear that the Internet is just about the only media entity giving anyone the truth of what's going on in the world and the US, we'd pretty much be done if something like the AT&T episode became commonplace.