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Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam
ESCquire writes "Apparently, the Washington Post Blog 'Security Fix' managed to shut down McColo, a US-based hosting provider facilitating more than 75 percent of global spam. " Now how long before the void is filled by another ISP?
...or so Smelly Jeffrey claims. I have not read ANY law that treats ISPs as common carriers.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Common carrier laws apply to ISP
Are you incapable of reading the message *directly* above your own? QUOTE: "Except that ISP's are NOT common carriers in the USA. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/1510219 [slashdot.org]"
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Congressionally-protected, not constitutionally protected. The constitution never discusses ISPs or common carriers.
And even if the Communication Decency Act, Section 230 does protect an ISP from liable for its users statements, that still does NOT make an ISP a "common carrier" which the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed as recently as 2005: http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/27/technology/broadband_ruling/index.htm?cnn=yes
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
[Yawn] right back you. The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed as recently as 2005 that ISPs are not common carriers:
See this article here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/1510219
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
McDonalds better watch out. These things come in threes, people.