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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.""
While slashdot dons their tinfoil hats about a non-issue, how about a real case of someone being FINED for speaking their mind?
Brigitte Bardot fined for inciting racial hatred
So all you eurotrash (and for that matter the moveon crowd here) who crawl out of the woodwork every few days to take pot shots at how "fascist" America is and how Ashcroft is the devil incarnate, care to speak to this REAL human rights abuse as opposed to your fantasies? We have something called the 1st Amendment that means that anyone proposing such a law would simply be laughed at.... and a 2nd that says anyone who managed to do it anyway wouldn't last long.
Democrat delenda est
Sample three: A site offering "Gamez/Moviez/Warez". They also spammed a forum I administrate. A complaint was made exactly one week ago. I've heard nothing from the ISP.
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
What are you talking about?
1) Choice.
There's only one ISP in my city of approximately 80,000 people. It's Comcast or go home.
There's only one newspaper. The nearest large city, Indianapolis, also only has one newspaper. They're both owned by the same company.
3) Ownership. My ISP is using state-provided lines and a subsidized monopoly to provide me with internet service in the first place!
Libertarian idealism is fine and dandy until you're not rich.