This is a good test of NN in the sense that if ATT were doing this normally they would be accused of vigilantism. Just because they happen to control the pipe of information to my house why are they any more justified in such actions? Is the electric power company going to take responsibility for what people do using the light from street lamps?
The DMCA point is a good one -- Kevin Bankston will likely be talking more about this particular issue than I will at http://www.netneutrality2008.org/Schedule.html but I will try to make sure it gets raised though there isn't much time and the panels seem to be staffed mostly by those with a stake planted firmly in the pat and up ... sorry, gotta be nice. As to child porn - how many of those so concerned voted in favor of health care for children - my guess is that the correlation between the two is negative. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lauren Weinstein Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:48 To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ NNSquad ] AT&T, P2P, and Filtering (from Slyck) Greetings. Definitely do read the article referenced below. Particularly interesting is how AT&T attempts to simultaneously claim the moral high ground when it comes to filtering (even invoking child porn examples, as predicted) while simultaneously making it clear that economic issues are their core concern (related: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000356.html ). AT&T also attempts to *praise* P2P technology at the same time that they condemn many of its users. Particularly amusing is how they'd like to legally finesse such monitoring and filtering, apparently by acting as a "notification" agent when they detect "illicit" materials -- but then not taking any direct action themselves. In this way, they obviously would hope to avoid taking on legal responsibilities that could decimate their DMCA exemptions. Anyway, it's a good article: http://www.slyck.com/story1640_ATT_P2P_Filtering_and_the_Consumer --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator
