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Re: REVISION re: Amtrak photo contestant arrested...for taking pictures of... Trains!


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:17:50 -0500



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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: January 5, 2009 3:34:14 PM EST
To: dave () farber net, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Subject: Re: REVISION re: [IP] Amtrak photo contestant arrested...for taking pictures of... Trains!

At 9:10 AM -0500 1/5/09, David Farber wrote:
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From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Date: January 5, 2009 8:25:25 AM EST
...

So how likely was this to be censorship and how likely was this due to the
carlosmiller site being farbered, slashdotted etc etc?

In retrospect, I suspect it may have been the system that's hosting carlosmiller.com that might have unilaterally imposed a temporary "Forbidden" 303 error, due to too many hits ... and if so, it was probably due to too many hits from Dave's diligent and always-curious followers. :-)

However, the other alternative that was also mentioned, was the possibility that Miller might have, himself, blocked access to his own site, perhaps on "advice of counsel" ... perhaps until enough people contacted him saying he damn-well should NOT self-censor himself that way.

Having seen both of these scenarios occur, these TWO alternatives DO remain worthy of periodic highlighting - lest either or both become even more common!

--jim




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