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Testing ISP Censorship
ryants writes "As part of a research project, Christian Ahlert ran an interesting experiment. He posted John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which is clearly in the public domain, on different ISPs. He then sent the ISPs phony copyright violation notices. The results are troubling, with ISPs "acting as judge, jury and private investigator at the same time.""
I wonder how much censorship ( loosly using the word, as only a government can censor, by definition ) is taking place due to an ISP's personal views.
Such as a Jew owned ISP filtering out blatant Nazi sites.. but not mentioning it to their customers...
Sure it is their right, but its also the right of the consumers to go elswhere. They should be legally obligated to notify customers of the filtering.
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