Transit politics (Telus blocking sites it does not like)

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/24/1145417-sun.html

As the slashdot headline quotes,

Canadian telephone company and ISP "Telus" has admitted that they are 
<http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/24/1145417-sun.html>blocking 
all attempts to access a website set up by the employee's union (who is 
currently "on-strike" or "locked-out", depending on your point of view). 
Currently no customers of the Telco's ADSL service (or any other ADSL 
service provider who leases lines) can access the 
<http://www.voices-for-change.com/>union's webpage. Is it reasonable for an 
ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?"

As Telus is one of my transit providers, they are still advertising the 
path to me, but are blackholing the /32s in question.  Kind of sets a bad 
precedent for a common carrier argument :(  I like BGP blackholing to 
protect internet infrastructure, but what exactly is this protecting ?

        ---Mike

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