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Article #79Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4s93f3$qoj@morgoth.sfu.ca>, Peter Van Epp <vanepp@sfu.ca> wrote: >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. That's not what "common carrier" means. "Common carrier" in this context simply means that they're not responsible for _everything_ that is carried. A common carrier can still be held responsible for content that they are aware of. Not even a common carrier is allowed to break the law. -- Chris Lewis: _Una confibula non sat est_
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/14 Message-ID: <DuICKM.6LC@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> X-Deja-AN: 168258202 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <4s67fc$hco@news.interlog.com> <4s8m47$t5o@news.intranet.ca> <4s93f3$qoj@morgoth.sfu.ca> organization: eh? 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