
Does it really matter whether Operation Chokehold shuts down AT&T’s network today? Even if every iPhone user in the country dials up video highlights of “Pirates of Silicon Valley” exactly at noon Pacific time — and somehow the bits keep flowing and the phones keep ringing — it’ll be too late: Operation Chokehold has already put the squeeze on the U.S.’s second-largest wireless carrier. Our story so far: Newsweek tech columnist Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs – he of the satirical, notorious “Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” blog — issued a digital fatwa.