I live in NZ and a few years ago a free internet provider appeared, called i4free (they made there money on an unbalanced interconnect deal between rival networks). My internet provider then, ihug, blocked all access to there sign-up page, if I remeber correctly redirecting you to there own page without any notice. Their reasoning, they didn't think the economic model was viable and therefore consistuted a danger to the people. This is despite the fact that ihug had upto that point never blocked any websites and carried all newgroups even though they contained illegal material that should be subject to censorship laws. Talk about double standards.
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I live in NZ and a few years ago a free internet provider appeared, called i4free (they made there money on an unbalanced interconnect deal between rival networks). My internet provider then, ihug, blocked all access to there sign-up page, if I remeber correctly redirecting you to there own page without any notice. Their reasoning, they didn't think the economic model was viable and therefore consistuted a danger to the people. This is despite the fact that ihug had upto that point never blocked any websites and carried all newgroups even though they contained illegal material that should be subject to censorship laws. Talk about double standards.