[57232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: State Super-DMCA Too True
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Lambert)
Mon Mar 31 19:54:16 2003
From: "Alex Lambert" <alambert@quickfire.org>
To: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:53:36 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
> Common carrier status exists for this very reason. Unfortunately, it
> probably means we'll have to stop filtering things like spam and DoS,
since
> filtering on content inherently violates common carrier protection -- see
> the smut suit against AOL a few years ago.
Allow me to continue to pummel the poor horse --
What about the customer that requests that the telco block calls from
certain numbers? I don't think that affects common carrier status, but
IANAL.
apl
