Justin Jouvenal and Jenny Toomey of FMC pointed me to the Pearl Jam Lollapalooza webcast tiff. What appears to have happened is that some overzealous minion at ATT, the sponsor and caster of the band's show, chopped out (that'd be "censored" I believe) some impromptu lyrics with political content. Shocking, I know, for a rock band to be making a political statement.

Pearl Jam have a long entry on the issue at their blog, saying that ATT admitted making the cuts was a mistake. The band go on to raise the concerns echoed by FMC about corporate control over the Web and the failures of self-regulation. To the point - who holds ATT accountable for errors of this sort or who challenges the contention that they are errors and not deliberate acts of corporate censorship? Well, unless we have strong net neutrality laws the answer is going to continue to be "nobody."

I'm not terribly happy with that answer.