[116234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Jul 27 09:59:03 2009
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:58:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1248674313.13748.10.camel@petrie>
Cc: "nanog - n. am. network ops group list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, William Pitcock wrote:
> It is widely known that AT&T loves censorship. They love censorship
> because it is profitable for them to love censorship, and this isn't the
> first time they have enmasse blocked access to a website they didn't
> like. This has nothing at all to do with forged ACK responses, and
> everything to do with content.
How does breaking things (censorship) make them more money?
http://njabl.org/faq.html#Q12
> AT&T does not have the right to filter what their users can access,
> period. You can put all the spin on it that you want, but in the end
> it's about content.
Whatever happened to "My network, my rules?" If AT&T blocks something,
and as an AT&T customer, you don't like it, get your connectivity from
someone else.
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