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Re: discipline and punishment on the Net
As long as subscribers know the rules going in and agree to them, then
ISPs such as Safe Net provide a valuable service. However, if the
decisions about what sites are filtered are made arbitrarily, then the
service is being unfair to its consumers. This brings up the larger issue
of who is making the filtering decisions; while it is obvious that one
person's standards cannot be objective, can any set of standards be truly
reliable and objective, particularly in a world with differing community
standards?
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Paul Jones wrote:
> ISP become censors
> http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/091797n1.htm
>
> "Safe Net in California is another ISP promoting its ability to preempt
> all its users' access to Web sites with sex, violence and other
> objectionable content. Ken Walker, who created SafeNet, said he uses his
> own judgment to decide what gets filtered. According to a Frequently
> Asked Questions (FAQ) list on the Web site, Walker states: "Anything I
> feel is offensive or personally do not agree with, I filter. My views are
> greatly derived from biblical standpoints.""
>
> Isn't this just editting? or is it something more?
>
>
> Johnny Cash testifies in Congress against net.pirates
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/091897copyright.html
>
> Enjoy a photo of JC with Sonny Bono. How does this fit with the history of
> media control from newspapers, to radio, to recording, to TV, to VCRs, to
> digital tapes?
> On the other side the less glamourous figure:
> "Roy Neel, president of the U.S. Telephone Association, said that for
> Internet service providers and phone companies, the treaty language would
> be like holding the Bic company responsible for the content of what was
> written with its pens."
>
>
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