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Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking)
From: Kradorex Xeron <admin () digibase ca>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:28:35 -0400
On Saturday 09 June 2007 16:43, Sean Donelan wrote: [...]
Is a centralized filtering solution better or worse than a decentralized filtering solution?
[...] In my opinion, it is not. With centralized, who gets to decide what is filtered and why? I don't beleive a governmental entity should have to treat it's *adult* citizens like children. with de-centralized, it is the user's perrogative what gets filtered and what doesn't - if the user doesn't want their them or their children seeing certain content, then filtering is their option. As well as it gives the user power over *WHAT* gets filtered and *WHY*. From my view, ISPs should continue their role as "passing the packets" and not say what their users can or cannot view. It's when ISPs start interfering with what their users do is when we will run into legal, political and otherwise issues that I'm sure none of us want to see. And with ISP level filtering: what's to say a legitamate page won't get caught in the filter? i.e. if a news article is covering a child pornography story, what's to stop the filter from picking up on that and blocking the news site due to a false-positive?
Current thread:
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.., (continued)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. Donald Stahl (Jun 08)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. Alexander Harrowell (Jun 08)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. Leigh Porter (Jun 08)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. Adrian Chadd (Jun 08)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. Donald Stahl (Jun 08)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. alex (Jun 08)
- UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Sean Donelan (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Keegan . Holley (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Mark Smith (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Keegan . Holley (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Kradorex Xeron (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Stephen Sprunk (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) John Levine (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Barry Shein (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) John Levine (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Roland Perry (Jun 12)
- Duties of US ISPs Sean Donelan (Jun 12)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) William Allen Simpson (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Alexander Harrowell (Jun 09)