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Should AT&T be spying on the Internet?

submitted by LeadingZero
1 decade 6 years 10 months ago

Technology writer Joel Johnson was invited to talk about gadgets on The Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored by AT&T for distribution on AT&T's Tech Channel. Instead of discussing gadgets right away, Joel felt compelled to first discuss AT&T's recent and unprecedented proposal to filter Internet traffic. http://www.slate.com/id/2182152/fr/rss/

The interview was halted once Joel began questioning AT&T's moral and legal rights on this matter. Anticipating this might happen, a friend was present to tape the interview with a hand held camera. Here's a more complete description of events from Joel Johnson himself: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/talking-about-atts-i.html

5 Comments

Good on him!!

How did this schlub get a show? Every time he says dude I wanna punch him. Does get some decent guests but the host is just awful.

CaptainPlanet420

Screw Big BROOOOOTHER

JohnnyMackers says...

"Should" they filter traffic? Hell no. I'd equate it to the post office opening up your letters and packages to check if they contained copyrighted material.

This proposal from AT&T is not just Orwellian. It's Orwell.

I agree with winkler1. Is this host an actor or a clown? Is he for real?

Seriously. Even if you wrote the highest archetypal part of "complete dork" and got a seriously dorky comedic genious to play him, you still couldn't get what this guy delivers.
And don't get me wrong: if he answered the "how would they actually do it" question with anything approaching technical aplomb or with even a whiff of insight, instead of the canned, half-witted corporate marketingspeak he sputtered out, his complete lack of *any social skills whatsofuckingever* might be lightly excused. Instead, like winkler, I feel an inescapable urge to smack him repeatedly.

Anyway, good for Joel.

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