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Article #406Re: ELECTRONIC FRONTIER CANADA - Take on the Law, not the ISP's.
From: David Jones
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00
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Colin R. Leech wrote: > > David Jones (djones@insight.mcmaster.ca) writes: > > IGS accused an innocent person of committing a crime. > > They had reasonable grounds for believing that the page might be illegal: > i.e. the fact that the police were calling the page illegal. Why are Canadians so quick to presume that an accusation implies guilt? The police initiated an investigation following a complaint. The complaint may even have originated at IGS! The police *never* said the pages were illegal. They said they would investigate to make a determination. > It was a business decision, plain and simple. True enough. The lasting lesson is that most businesses care more about avoiding controversy than they care about their customers.
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