[51285] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Thu Aug 22 14:58:30 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:50:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: Rob Healey <rhealey@onvoy.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200208221831.NAA25402@benjy.onvoy.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Rob Healey wrote:
> Can ISP's arbitrarily refuse to give service to someone who tries
> to sign up? i.e. if everyone refused to give Sony service could they
> sue on some sort of discrimination/collusion charge?
ISPs, if they wanted, could have a policy that states "We refuse to
service people of color, alternate sexualities, non-christians, and
women. If you fit that, don't apply."
> Do ISP/ASP/*SP's HAVE to provide services if someone knocks on the
> door requesting them or can they refuse for any reason what so ever?
Any private business can serve whoever they want.
> Any armchair lawyers, who play one on TV, have the/an answer?
I'm not a lawyer, but this is pretty fundemental so you get my input
anyway.
Andy
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