In America, we have two sets of laws. (Some would agure more, yes.) Those that apply to citizens, and those that apply to corporations. It really sucks that large for-profit organizations can apply reprehensible policies that directly conflict with the ideals of our founding fathers and then, upon eventual backlash, diffuse accountability through publicists.

Check this out: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3467093&page=1

AT&T blatantly edited out anti-Bush lyrics sung by Pearl Jam on a recent Lollapalooza webcast.

Just read the story and come back….

Done?

As an artist, this scares the shit out of me. Sure, censorship is alive and well in Bush’s America. It’s a pretty typical rant but…

My problem is this: Again, as an artist, or producer of CONTENT, in order to have that content distributed across a mass audience, eventually I may have to partner up with one of these large corporatocracies. Through most of these kinds of deals, they can feel free to skew my content toward whatever end they wish - if I’m not smart enough to see it coming.

Or edit it.

I dunno, it’s just really disturbing.

Even though the methods of content distribution are growing in number, the distributors are still consolidating.

Fewer options!

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