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Re: What is lawful content? [was VZ...]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Fri Feb 27 17:00:06 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Bruce H McIntosh <bhm@ufl.edu>, Jim Richardson <weaselkeeper@gmail.com>,
 Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:46:25 +0000
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

I=B9m not sure who gets to definitively answer the question (I would guess
that case law will develop around it but IANAL), but this sort of caveat
has been in the Open Internet rules for awhile. In general it means ISPs
can=B9t block stuff like Facebook but have latitude to do stuff like block =
a
site/IP address that may be the source of an attack, etc.


- Jason

On 2/27/15, 2:24 PM, "Bruce H McIntosh" <bhm@ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>On 2015-02-27 14:14, Jim Richardson wrote:
>> What's a "lawful" web site?
>>
>Now *there* is a $64,000 question.  Even more interesting is, "Who gets
>to decide day to day the answer to that question?" :)


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