[82625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Transit politics (Telus blocking sites it does not like)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Mon Jul 25 09:12:23 2005
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:14:15 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/24/1145417-sun.html
As the slashdot headline quotes,
Canadian telephone company and ISP "Telus" has admitted that they are
<http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/24/1145417-sun.html>blocking
all attempts to access a website set up by the employee's union (who is
currently "on-strike" or "locked-out", depending on your point of view).
Currently no customers of the Telco's ADSL service (or any other ADSL
service provider who leases lines) can access the
<http://www.voices-for-change.com/>union's webpage. Is it reasonable for an
ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?"
As Telus is one of my transit providers, they are still advertising the
path to me, but are blackholing the /32s in question. Kind of sets a bad
precedent for a common carrier argument :( I like BGP blackholing to
protect internet infrastructure, but what exactly is this protecting ?
---Mike
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