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[ PRIVACY Forum ] NBC's Internet #Fail - Choking the Olympic Spirit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Sat Jul 28 20:21:41 2012
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NBC's Internet #Fail - Choking the Olympic Spirit for Profit
http://j.mp/OnydFJ (oreilly.com)
"I still haven't seen the opening ceremony from Beijing (same reasons,
same perp), and I missed the one last night too. Well, I didn't miss
it exactly. When my tweet stream started lighting up late yesterday
afternoon with visions of giant babies and Voldemort and flying
bicycles and all the other British trippiness I ran to my TV. Work can
wait, I want to see this! But I was blocked at every turn. Like an
Iranian dissident I finally managed via a secret proxy to get a
glimpse. But it lasted only a moment before some well-compensated
gatekeeper sussed it out and blocked my subversive stream. I couldn't
deal with the asymmetry of the commentary without the thing, so I just
shut down Twitter. Did you know that the in order to use the official
iPhone and iPad apps from NBC to live stream events you have to
subscribe to a particular set of cable companies, and furthermore you
have to be subscribed to a short list of pay channels? The web is no
more an open network. It has been reduced (and diminished) to mere
media pipe that connects (only) to your monopoly owned app - It's like
the AT&T of old."
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