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[ NNSquad ] Re: AT&T, P2P, and Filtering (from Slyck)
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This is a good test of NN in the sense that if ATT were doing
this normally they would be accused of vigilantism. Just because they happen to
control the pipe of information to my house why are they any more justified in
such actions? Is the electric power company going to take responsibility for what
people do using the light from street lamps? The DMCA point is a good one -- Kevin Bankston will likely
be talking more about this particular issue than I will at http://www.netneutrality2008.org/Schedule.html
but I will try to make sure it gets raised though there isn't much time and the
panels seem to be staffed mostly by those with a stake planted firmly in the
pat and up ... sorry, gotta be nice. As to child porn – how many of those so concerned voted
in favor of health care for children – my guess is that the correlation
between the two is negative. -----Original Message----- Greetings. Definitely do read the article
referenced below. Particularly interesting is how AT&T attempts to
simultaneously claim the moral high ground when it comes to filtering
(even invoking child porn examples, as predicted) while
simultaneously making it clear that economic issues are their core
concern (related: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000356.html ). AT&T also attempts to *praise* P2P technology at the
same time that they condemn many of its users. Particularly amusing is how they'd like to legally
finesse such monitoring and filtering, apparently by acting as a
"notification" agent when they detect "illicit" materials --
but then not taking any direct action themselves. In this way, they
obviously would hope to avoid taking on legal responsibilities that could
decimate their DMCA exemptions. Anyway, it's a good article: http://www.slyck.com/story1640_ATT_P2P_Filtering_and_the_Consumer --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator |