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Article #77Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Peter Van Epp
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:00
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alaing@intranet.ca (Alain Goyette) writes: >That's bull. It that was the case, then the TELCOs would fall under >the same headings as it is very possible, and bloddy likely that some >users will connect directly to each other and exchange the obcene >data. Is the TELCO then responsible for the data transmitted on their >systems? No? then ISP's provide the same functions but under different >time-frames (Eg. instead of being transient, the information is stored >for a finite amount of time.) The telcos are specifically exempted from responsibility for content as a common carrier. An ISP is not specifically listed as a common carrier and thus may not have the same protection (I don't believe there has been a court case yet). Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public From: vanepp@sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/13 Message-ID: <4s93f3$qoj@morgoth.sfu.ca> X-Deja-AN: 168237484 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com> <4rpjjn$pbr@news1.io.org> <4rsidl$ufa@news3.realtime.net> <4rtnus$lb4@presence.lglobal.com> <4ru2st$r9o@news.interlog.com> <31e2af17.73369975@news.interlog.com> <4s67fc$hco@news.interlog.com> <4s8m47$t5o@news.intranet.ca> organization: Simon Fraser University newsgroups: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general