You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to agree that network neutrality is one way to ensure that a single corporation doesn’t have authority to censor an artist’s performance based on political or self-interest. You know, if we adopted the model pushed by the major telecommunication companies, they might have the power to, say, mute out lyrics sung by Pearl Jam that say “George Bush leave this world alone.” Nah, that wouldn’t happen. Whoops, it just did. Pearl Jam’s got the video. (via the Machinist):
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