cleanfeed and wikipedia

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:16:09 +0000


>
> An ISP that did not serve left wing pages, because the sympathies of
> someone influential were right wing, and which reported that the sites
> did not exist, or that http://labour.org/manifesto  was returning a  
> 404
> would be an easier case to consider, or perhaps an ISP influenced by
> Debenhams, which only showed its customers a proportion of the  
> products
> available from Marks and Spencers, providing 404 for the rest would  
> make
> the point.

In fact, an ISP doing that sort of thing would do us all a favour,  
because it would make very clear the lack of legal, contractual or  
regulatory protection for customers and flush out just what Ofcom  
would do about it.

ian