AT&T changes its tune… and its terms of service
October 14th, 2007
It’s amazing that AT&T would only fix their TOS after feeling tremendous pressure and criticism worldwide for their recent update to their TOS. Now, apparently, they agree with the rest of the world that freedom of expression is a good thing:
AT&T respects freedom of expression and believes it is a foundation of our free society to express differing points of view. AT&T will not terminate, disconnect or suspend service because of the views you or we express on public policy matters, political issues or political campaigns.
Aw, that just gives me a nice warm and fuzzy. How about you? I wish that AT&T would have added this statement for the right reasons and done this from the start, instead of adding this as damage control. And how can they even try to claim this at all? As Cory Doctorow said:
I wish they’d kept this in mind when they were illegally wiretapping the entire Internet for the NSA
If this is what their TOS previously said (according to you):
conduct that AT&T believes… (c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries
then did anything *really* change? Their new statement doesn’t exactly prevent them from terminating you for saying they suck, right?
October 14, 2007 @ 10:24 am
I didn’t post the whole new section from their TOS, but the boing boing post I linked to shows it as well as the AT&T site itself. Here’s the whole new section on suspension/termination:
October 14, 2007 @ 11:05 am
Gotcha (that was me commenting, btw. :))
Thanks!
October 14, 2007 @ 2:43 pm