FC: State of Pennsylvania v. WorldCom -- court documents now online

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

I've put some pretty interesting (and important) documents online. The 
first is a set of court documents that Pennsylvania attorney general Mike 
Fisher filed last week to force WorldCom to block URLs of alleged child 
porn sites. In what must be entirely a coincidence, Fisher, a Republican, 
is running for governor and is behind in the polls by about 7 percent. His 
filings:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/worldcom.pa.order.092402.pdf

WorldCom replied yesterday. It said it would comply -- but technologically 
had no choice but to block sites by IP address, not URL. It also said 
complying with the order meant it would have to block those IP addresses 
not only for Pennsylvania residents, but for *all of North America*:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/worldcom.pa.reply.092402.pdf

Previous Politech message:

"Pennsylvania county judge orders Worldcom to block sex sites"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04006.html

-Declan

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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959045.html?tag=cd_mh

   WorldCom blocks access to child porn
   By Lisa M. Bowman and Declan McCullagh
   September 23, 2002, 12:46 PM PT

   Bowing to an order from Pennsylvania's attorney general, WorldCom will
   block customer access to some offshore Web sites by the end of the
   day.

   Last week, a Pennsylvania judge, at the request of Attorney General
   Mike Fisher, ordered WorldCom, the bankrupt Internet and voice
   provider, to block access to five purported child pornography sites.
   Among those was a site hosted by Terra.es, Spain's largest Internet
   portal and a division of Terra Lycos.

   Because it doesn't have the technical capability to stop residents of
   a particular state from viewing specific Web sites, WorldCom plans to
   block all of its North American subscribers from some of the IP
   (Internet Protocol) addresses.

   [...]




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