Roland Perry - "is an ISP a 'Person'?"

Owen Blacker owen.blacker at wheel.co.uk
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:35:18 +0100


Richard Clayton:
> 
> [Adult content filtering for children]
> 
> BTW, whilst thinking about this you may wish to consider the tension
> between this type of contract between the ISP and parent and articles
> #13-#16 of the UN Convention on The Rights of the Child (ratified by
> almost every country on the planet)...

To be pticly pedantic (and off-topic :o)  , Article 13 subsection 2(b) of
the Convention allows kids' freedom of expression to be restricted "For the
protection of ... morals".  I'm sure such a system could thus be argued, if
anyone (NetNanny?) cared to do so.

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm


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