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Internet Filtering Lobby Forms

Posted by Soulskill on from the do-not-want dept.

mbone writes "Wired's David Kravets reports on a new lobbying effort to support the filtering of internet traffic called Arts & Labs. Coverage is available at PC World as well. The lobby's members include AT&T, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Viacom and the Songwriters Guild of America. Their web site says, 'network operators must have the flexibility to manage and expand their networks to defend against net pollution and illegal file-trafficking which threatens to congest and delay the network for all consumers.' Does it seem that this is an attempt to categorize P2P with spam and malware, or is it just me?"

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  1. Fa1l2ors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Can someone mod that down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, maybe they should just auto-mod everything down by default and only let the good comments rise from below.

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