Will ATT Filter Discussion Of Their Filters?
Boing Boing’s Gadgets editor Joel Johnson was asked to appear on The Hugh Thompson Show, an AT&T-produced program that airs on the AT&T Tech Channel. Johnson was obviously supposed to speak about gadgets, but instead used his allotted time questioning AT&T’s plans to implement piracy filters across their network, which the show’s producers apparently didn’t appreciate.As you can see from the video, the crew ended up scrubbing the interview about half-way through. Figuring that might happen, I asked my steely-nerved friend Richard Blakeley to tape the first take. I wanted to make sure that we had a record of the event, primarily to ensure that AT&T would have no reason to try to bury the interview entirely the same reason I am running this clip now, while discussion about what to do with my segment in post-production is surely underway.In a second take gadgets are discussed, but network neutrality and AT&T’s relationship with the NSA become fodder for conversation.
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