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The Point of posting a youtube behind the scenes of AT&T's Hugh Thompson Video on our web site

Submitted by mauro on January 31, 2008 - 11:07pm.

Because someone asked:
Short answer: Educational purposes.
As folks are crying for cable competition, the telecom giants, like AT&T and Verizon, are lobbying hard to avoid accountability to municipalities and thus the people. Open and democratic media platforms such as this WCCA TV, public access station, and community media in general can shine a light on injustice.It appears that AT&T didn't want us to hear that the government may be reading their customer's emails.
This video has been on line, prior to being posted on ours. It has been posted on blogger web sites, as well as other digital venues, and perhaps even other public access web sites as well. Today PEG channels face many threats. If legislation passes at the whim of telecommunication corporate interest ($), WE, the people, will have less digital, less electronic "public space" to participate on. Our freedom of speech and our ability to independently share views and information and as well as, meet local community media needs will be compromised. This is why we need stronger legislative mandates to ensure public access/community media is protected FOR THE LONG TERM. That is the point.
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this blog

Submitted by Anonymous on February 1, 2008 - 9:21am.

This blog is appearing on google searches today, and it probably references something important to those of us who are deeply concerned about the AT&T Final Solution to the PEG Question

{1 - Rip the offending PEG channels from their customary homes;
2 - Refuse to support them, insist they pull their own weight
3 - Railroad them off to the Lovely Channel 99 Compression Camp
4 - When they finally die of exhaustion bury them in mass graves and watch the stock prices rise}

However, as interesting at the event the blog above describes, there seems to be no way to find it (assuming, of course, that you don't know anything about it in the first place)

See?

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Correction

Submitted by mauro on February 3, 2008 - 6:46pm.

We changed the text slightly to clarify the point that that it appears that AT&T didn't want us to hear that the government may be reading their customer's emails.

Make what you will of it.

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Senate Moves to Shield Telecoms on Eavesdropping

Submitted by John on February 12, 2008 - 7:15pm.

The Senate voted Tuesday to shield from lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without court permission after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

After nearly two months of stops and starts, the Senate rejected by a vote of 31 to 67 a move to strip away a grant of retroactive legal immunity for the companies.
Read the full NY Times story

Mr Thompson was blasting at the wrong organization. AT&T wasn't reading your email or IM. AT&T simply passed the bits to the government.

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