[148361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: In search of uplink vendor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Jan 12 22:33:27 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:32:30 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F0F5716.5090907@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 01:56:38PM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
> On 12/01/12 12:18 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Network IP Dog"<network.ipdog@gmail.com>
> >>Isn't this Internet censorship?
> >Repeat after me: It's not censorship unless it's imposed by a government.
>
> The wikipedia definition seems more accurate:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
>
> " *Censorship* is the suppression of speech or other public
> communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive,
> or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a
> government, media outlet, or other controlling body."
>
time to update the wikipedia entry then...
think parents suppression of "communication [] considered
objectionable, harmful, sensitive or inconvenient" wrt
their children. the key is "controlling body"... be it
ISP, Government, CorporateIT, your mom, or the school board.
It might even be -YOU- (you do have control, right?)
/bill
