AT&T claim it was a mistake, CMJ contacted them for comment and were told that a webcast editor mistakenly took the portions out due to their policy of censoring excessive language due to their all-ages audience.
"This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media," Pearl Jam wrote in a statement on their website. Then again they shouldn't be surprised by the corporate action since they were performing at a festival that has become more and more corporate as the years go by. - Read more about the band's anger and AT&Ts response at CMJ
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