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Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

  • From: Alex Lambert
  • Date: Mon Mar 31 19:55:39 2003

> From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
> Common carrier status exists for this very reason.  Unfortunately, it
> probably means we'll have to stop filtering things like spam and DoS,
since
> filtering on content inherently violates common carrier protection -- see
> the smut suit against AOL a few years ago.

Allow me to continue to pummel the poor horse --

What about the customer that requests that the telco block calls from
certain numbers? I don't think that affects common carrier status, but
IANAL.





apl





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