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Has Verizon Forfeited Common Carrier Status?
An anonymous reader writes, "Freedom of speech, the future of the Net, you name it. In October, a U.S. vigilante group asked Verizon to cut off Net access to Epifora, a Canadian ISP that hosts a number of (entirely legal) web sites offering support to minor-attracted adults. Shortly thereafter, Verizon gave 30 days notice to Epifora, ending a 5 year relationship. Telecos have traditionally refrained from censoring legal content, arguing that as 'common carriers' it is outside of their scope to make such decisions. Furthermore, they have refrained because if they did so in some cases, they might be legally liable for other cases where they did not exercise censorship. The questions are: has Verizon forfeited their claim to common-carrier status by selectively censoring legal speech that they do not like? And can the net effectively route around censorship if the trunk carriers are allowed to pick and choose whom they allow to connect?"
"Epifora, a Canadian ISP that hosts a number of (entirely legal) web sites offering support to minor-attracted adults."
You have got to love the way they say, "Minor-attracted adults".
The way we put that is pedophile.
Not even the person posting the story was willing to put their name on it.
Without knowing the websites it is hard to tell if they where legal in the US or not.
Notice no links to the sites, no titles of the sites, no nothing.
Kind of hard to judge with absolutely no real information, but that has never stopped anybody on Slashdot before.
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Flamebait? I'm sorry, was I wrong about any of that? Or am I being modded down for simply having forgotten to mention the witch-burnings, the blood libel, the crusades, the Northern Ireland massacres, the babies buried in the convent walls...
Flamebait, indeed. Step right up here, ladies, mind your skirts. Don't want to get caught on the tinder, now. If your dress ripped and we saw your legs before the priest gets here to light you off, why, that'd be... sinful!
Constructive new idea for Slashdot: No further mod points are to be given to religious moonbats.
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