[11719] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: In the matter of advertisements and lawsuits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Apr 15 11:16:19 1994
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 17:46 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: PAUL@tdr.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, RISKS@csl.sri.com, ETHICS-L@vm.gmd.de
In-Reply-To: <01.1994Apr14.01h05m37s.PAUL-0100000@TDR.COM> (message from Paul Robinson on Thu, 14 Apr 1994 02:06:21 -0400 (EDT))
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 02:06:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
In the instant case, the owner of an account posted something which some
people considered inappropriate. The provider of service, instead of
making some kind of arrangement such as informing them that such behavior
is considered inappropriate, immediately terminated their service, e.g.
locking their account. Now, common business practices dictate that
immediate termination of service is only justified if either there is a
contractual right to do so, or if there is a threat to the continued
operation of the provider such that continued operation of the particular
service requires termination of that customer's service.
Both of the above apply. Go look at gopher.indirect.com.
This is an instance where the service provider is unilaterally denying
service to a customer
You speak out of ignorance. Go look at gopher.indirect.com.
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