[159926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Muni network ownership and the Fourth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jan 29 10:59:59 2013
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:59:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob McEwen" <rob@invaluement.com>
> (C) The fact that the Internet is a series of PRIVATE networks... NOT
> owned/operated by the Feds... is a large reason why the 4th amendment
> provides such protections... it becomes somewhat of a "firewall" of
> protection against Federal gov't trampling of civil liberties... but
> if they own the network, then that opens up many doors for them.
Regular readers know that I'm really big on municipally owned fiber networks
(at layer 1 or 2)... but I'm also a big constitutionalist (on the first,
second, fourth, and fifth, particularly), and this is the first really good
counter-argument I've seen, and it honestly hadn't occurred to me.
Rob, anyone, does anyone know if any 4th amendment case law exists on muni-
owned networks?
Cheers,
-- jra
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