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Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:05:23 -0500
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:53:40 +0000 Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () nic pr> wrote:
Well, I can't blame Italy for trying to enforce their laws, but maybe can give them a better idea. Maybe instead of all those ACLs, other type of Blocks, DNS removals,etc.. Governments should more go to the direction of making agreement on the credit card companies which automatically will charge a tax when somebody is using those websites. I am sure almost all the transactions are thru debit account transfers or credit cards such as VISA, MC, or AMEX and it's not hard to find out the bank accounts of the companies which are doing gambling. So instead of trying to block something that the real mean is the FREEDOM (we call it Internet) go and push the banks to enforce the laws.
Yes, and the US government does that, too. It sometimes comes down to who has a bigger lobby, the bankers or the ISPs. Note also that banks make money directly on each such transaction; ISPs don't.
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- Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites, (continued)
- Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Fred Baker (Mar 07)
- Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Randy Bush (Mar 08)
- AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites tom (Mar 07)
- Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Joseph S D Yao (Mar 07)
- Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 07)
- Re: Italy is promoting djbdns Peter Dambier (Mar 07)
- RE: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Neil J. McRae (Mar 07)
- Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Andre Oppermann (Mar 07)
- RE: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 07)
- RE: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Mehmet Akcin (Mar 07)
- Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 07)
- Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites Pierfrancesco Caci (Mar 07)