[privacy] Diebold Demands HBO Cancel Film on Voting Machines

[Alex Eckelberry]

Yup, the Streisand Effect at work here. When will they learn...   

-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:14 PM
To: Fergie
Cc: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [privacy] Diebold Demands HBO Cancel Film on Voting
Machines

Smart move diebold, you just doubled HBO's ratings :-)

yaay!

-JP

On 11/1/06, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
> Via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Bloomberg).
>
> [snip]
>
> Diebold Inc. demanded that cable network HBO cancel a documentary that

> questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program 
> inaccurate and unfair.
>
> The program, "Hacking Democracy," is scheduled to debut on Nov. 2, 
> five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims 
> Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to 
> change voting results.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003335983_we
> bdiebold01.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net  
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