🚀 go-pugleaf

On 9 Oct 1996 12:57:18 -0400, richard@interlog.com (Richard Sexton)
wrote:

>In article <Wt3WycdqBgOZ088yn@interlog.com>,
>Craig Sherwood <acs@inetrex.com> wrote:
>>In Newsgroup interlog.general, bob@news.vrx.net (Bob Allisat) wrote:
>>
>>> As Mr. Jones may know a new group is poised to take the
>>> reins of the Toronto Freenet. If I am elected among them
>>> to the Board of Directors foremost among my efforts will
>>> be to entrench the Electronic Bill of Rights in this
>>> organization and to promulgate it throughout the Internet.
>>
>>Snort! boB, you couldn't get elected rat-catcher in Parkdale.
>
>If course he couldnt, butterfields term isn't up for two years yet.

Regardless of what you think of the original poster I was a subscriber
to  InfoRamp before/during the take over and subsequent ban frenzy
(some subscribers were actually spending hours and hours searching
through the 20,000-odd newsgroups for objectionable material and then
writing to the support and legal departments of iStar to "alert" them)

This is serious.

As far as I know every ISP in North America is thought of as a common
carrier.  I haven't heard of one law enforcement agency who has even
toyed with the idea of making an ISP responsible for the
information/data that subscribers access through their service. 

They tried this crap in the U.S. and not even Al Gore and Sen. Exxon
could get this lead balloon of an idea off the ground (thanks to the
unanimous opposition of the online community.)


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