[178492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is lawful content? [was VZ...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Feb 27 18:42:22 2015
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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:28:37 -0500
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On Feb 27, 2015, at 18:12 , Jim Richardson <weaselkeeper@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore =
<patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
>> I am not a lawyer (in fact, I Am Not An Isp), but my understanding is =
this is pretty well settled.
>>=20
>> And it is not even weird or esoteric. If the content on the site is =
against the law in the jurisdiction in question, it is not legal (duh). =
Otherwise, yes it is, and no ISP gets to decide whether you can see it =
or not.
>=20
> Which is the "jurisdiction in question" ? the originating website? the
> ISP? the CDN network's corporate home? my home?
Again, well settled.
It is where the end user is viewing the content _and_ where the content =
is served. If a CDN, then each node which serves the traffic must be in =
a place where it is legal. There are CDNs which do not serve all =
customers from all nodes for exactly this reason.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
