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Working Assets calls for iPhone boycott (updated)

There was bound to be a backlash at some point. The AT&T bashing has begun:Working Assets is calling for a boycott of the iPhone.
Written by Jason D. O'Grady, Contributor

There was bound to be a backlash at some point. The AT&T bashing has begun:

Working Assets is calling for a boycott of the iPhone. The locking of all iPhones to AT&T is unnecessary, and Working Assets has specific issues with AT&T -- including their stand on net neutrality, their warrantless wiretapping, and their handing over of customer records to the NSA. They say Apple is locking iPhone users into a service contract with 'a corporation whose practices seem to run counter to everything Apple stands for...

From Boing Boing:

Handset locking sucks, and AT&T sucks more: These people are criminal traitors who helped wiretap the nation, neutricidal maniacs bent on wrecking the Internet, and convicted monopolists besides.

Blorge.com also weighs in.

Warning: it's not warm and fuzzy. 

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