[37651] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Stability of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Meyer)
Fri May 18 21:19:05 2001
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:13:20 -0500
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From: Albert Meyer <albert@waller.net>
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I hear this same argument from clients who want me to unblock Napster. If
you look at the definition of censorship, it becomes fairly clear that when
a private company decides to block certain types of content from its
private network, that is not censorship. In order to "censor" Napster, or
new.net, or anything else, I would have to block (or at least attempt to
block) every possible access to it, rather than simply blocking it from my
company's private network.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=censor
At 04:22 PM 5/18/01 -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote:
>Blocking new.net is, in fact, censorship, not a cost saving
>measure.
