The Electronic Freedom Foundation has reported the results of their testing of problems experienced with Comcast's internet service particularly by users of P2P/BitTorrent software. The summary of the report is here. I found the story on WhatReallyHappened.com
This has gotten me thinking about some of the e-mails I haven't received that were related to BitTorrent services. Also, I wonder if this explains why my profile picture never shows up. Of course if blogger simply let you upload a picture into your profile instead of pointing to a URL it would really be a non-issue. But maybe I am missing something.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
A brave new world . . .
of censorship.
My own lovely ISP has apparently been engaged in both political and technological censorship. Comcast has been caught filtering e-mails that contain the URL http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ In addition they are interfering with a variety of applications such as P2P, FTP, VoIP etc that their customers use. I personally find this highly disturbing.
Recently Truthout.org reported that their e-mails were being blocked by AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
But wait, there's more. Apparently Clear Channel stations are being told not to play any songs from Bruce Springsteen's new album Magic. This is the same Clear Channel that dropped Howard Stern for "obscenity" shortly after Stern came out in favor of John Kerry in '04. As if that wasn't bad enough they were also the sponsors of the idiot Glenn Beck when he toured the country drumming up support for the Iraq War.
And who could forget AT&T censoring Pearl Jam's political comments.
What ever happened to freedom of speach?
My own lovely ISP has apparently been engaged in both political and technological censorship. Comcast has been caught filtering e-mails that contain the URL http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ In addition they are interfering with a variety of applications such as P2P, FTP, VoIP etc that their customers use. I personally find this highly disturbing.
Recently Truthout.org reported that their e-mails were being blocked by AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
But wait, there's more. Apparently Clear Channel stations are being told not to play any songs from Bruce Springsteen's new album Magic. This is the same Clear Channel that dropped Howard Stern for "obscenity" shortly after Stern came out in favor of John Kerry in '04. As if that wasn't bad enough they were also the sponsors of the idiot Glenn Beck when he toured the country drumming up support for the Iraq War.
And who could forget AT&T censoring Pearl Jam's political comments.
What ever happened to freedom of speach?
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