RE: Stability of the Internet?

[Albert Meyer <albert () waller net>]

I hear this same argument from clients who want me to unblock Napster. If 
you look at the definition of censorship, it becomes fairly clear that when 
a private company decides to block certain types of content from its 
private network, that is not censorship. In order to "censor" Napster, or 
new.net, or anything else, I would have to block (or at least attempt to 
block) every possible access to it, rather than simply blocking it from my 
company's private network.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=censor

At 04:22 PM 5/18/01 -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> Blocking new.net is, in fact, censorship, not a cost saving
> measure.