[privacy] Slippery Slope Alert: Canadian Telecoms Propose Shutting Hate Sites

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Globe and Mail (Canadian Press).

[snip]

A proposal to give Internet service providers the power to shut down
hate-mongering or pornographic websites received an enthusiastic
response Monday by top telecommunications executives, said the plan's
creator.

Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress,
presented the idea at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto to senior
managers from such major Internet providers as Rogers, Cogeco, and
Sympatico, owned by BCE Inc.

Most service providers are unable to remove objectionable content from
their servers unless it has been found illegal through a lengthy court
process, Farber said in his speech.

Farber proposed that major Canadian Internet providers devise a
protocol based on existing laws that would allow them to remove hateful
or pornographic material at their own discretion.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060613.gthate0613/BNStory/Technology/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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