Also, we should include a message that tells people to contact the ISP to
get the block fixed.  Thousands of e-mails should get their attention
(although it didn't work for the images of Mohammad issue, hmm).

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Phil Nash <[email protected]>wrote:

> Soxred93 wrote:
> >> Maybe we can set it for only 1 day, but use a JS hack to say that
> >> it's indefinite. That might get the word out to them. :)
> >>
> >> X!
>
> What might be better is to email their abuse@ first saying that on a
> certain
> date, none of their customers will be able to edit anonymously, and that
> this will continue, with the blocking period doubling, until they do
> something about *their* customer. I don't know if they have support
> newsgroups, but info to this effect into those NGs will concentrate the
> minds of those affected customers such that they will act in their own
> interests, but ultimately to ours too.
>
> As far as I can see, there is nothing unlawful in this, and it doesn't
> amount to blackmail, because it's not an "unwarranted demand"- it's a
> simple
> declaration of intent; and it's not "with menaces", because restricting
> access to an essentially private website can be done for whatever reason at
> all, capricious or not. Neither is it "with a view to gain or with intent
> to
> cause loss", because that clause specifically directs to economic
> consequences, which would not follow to Verizon should we choose to block
> their anon customers en bloc for temporary periods.
>
> All in all, it's *our* website, and we hold all the cards.
>
>
>
>
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