[97330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Thu Jun 7 17:30:15 2007
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:29:15 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <0DCD81CA-8E23-453E-A154-4E2904A9F9A2@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Interestingly, nobody has mentioned on the list what the offending
> content is yet. Or why this would even remotely be a good idea. I would
> think that if the content in question is legal, ISPs and the government
> shouldn't touch it, and if it isn't, law enforcement should do something
> about it.
>
It was in http://publicaffairs.linx.net/news/?p=497
"images of child abuse"
"voluntary" "co-operation"
"At present, the government does not propose to require UK ISPs to block
content and our policy is to pursue a self-regulatory approach wherever
possible."
"However, 90 per cent. of connections is not enough...."
