AT&T Just Kidding About Cutting Off Critics

It's nice to see AT&T isn't immune to some heat. The company is reportedly revising its Terms of Service (ToS) agreement after it appeared AT&T reserved the right to terminate service of those critical of them.

Originally, the language read that AT&T could terminate or suspend services for conduct they believed tended "to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries."

As written, it seems to imply that if you talk trash about them, they can cut you off. This didn't exactly help them during a time when many are keeping close watch on the company as an information gatekeeper.

Other recent also events belied the company's denial of a need for protection against corporate (more specifically, backbone providers) influence on the accessibility of online properties and information, otherwise known as Net Neutrality principles.

A nod and hardy "good job" is owed Ken Fisher and
Fisher seems pleased, too, that voices in blogosphere count for something…now if we could just get the federal government to lend us an ear -- you know, without Ma Bell listening in for them.