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[ga] Re: Censorship or good practice? - Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites
- To: Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: [ga] Re: Censorship or good practice? - Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites
- From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:13:44 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
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<P>Dr. Joe and all,</P>
<P> </P>
<P> Well thanks alot for this update/info. Much appriciated.
>:)<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff
2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Joe Baptista
<BAPTISTA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx><BR>Sent: Dec 30, 2009 8:50 PM <BR>To: "Jeffrey A.
Williams" <JWKCKID1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx><BR>Cc: governance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
ssene@xxxxxxxxxxxx, schneier@xxxxxxxxxxxx, sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> GA" <GA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx><BR>Subject: Re: Censorship
or good practice? - Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites <BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Jeffrey A. Williams
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
target=_blank>jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt
0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">All,<BR><BR> What are we
looking at here? It seems that the censors of the<BR>Canadian government
have decided that there were a significant<BR>number of web sites that were for
reasons of questionable validity,<BR>taken down. Maybe Dr. Joe can
enlighten us as to more detail?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>No there were only two. It was the German ISP that went a little
bonkers and shut down 5,000 websites. You have to be a little bonkers if your a
German ISP that censors on behalf of foreign governments.<BR><BR>Hope that
clears that up.<BR><BR>cheers<BR>joe baptista<BR><BR> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt
0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><BR> That's 2500+ in Great
Britten and 4500 in Canada. Will the US<BR>follow suit soon and in
greater volume?<BR><BR>See:<A
href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/29/1921257/Canadian-Censorship-Takes-Down-4500-Sites";
target=_blank>https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/29/1921257/Canadian-Censorship-Takes-Down-4500-Sites</A><BR><BR>mailto:<A
href="mailto:mtobis@gmail.FORTRANcomminuslanguage";
target=_blank>mtobis@gmail.FORTRANcomminuslanguage</A><BR>uncadonna writes
"According to activist group <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_yes_men";
target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_yes_men</A><BR>The Yes Men, the
government of Canada <A href="http://theyesmen.org/canadareacts";
target=_blank>http://theyesmen.org/canadareacts</A><BR>has shut down two parody
websites criticizing Canada's poor environmental policy.<BR>The article goes on
to claim that 'In response to Environment Canada's<BR>request, Serverloft
immediately turned off a whole block of IP addresses,<BR>knocking out more than
4500 websites that had nothing to do with the parody<BR>sites or the activists
who created them. Serverloft was shown no warrant,<BR>and never called the web
hosting company about the shutdown.'"<BR><BR>Respectful regards,<BR><BR>Jeffrey
A. Williams<BR>Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 294k members/stakeholders
and growing, strong!)<BR>"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom"
-<BR> Abraham Lincoln<BR><BR>"Credit should go with the performance of
duty and not with what is very<BR>often the accident of glory" - Theodore
Roosevelt<BR><BR>"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the
burden, B; liability<BR>depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied
by<BR>P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."<BR>United States v. Carroll Towing
(159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir.
1947]<BR>===============================================================<BR>Updated
1/26/04<BR>CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of<BR>Information Network Eng. INEG. INC.<BR>ABA member in good
standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail <A href="mailto:jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
target=_blank>jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A><BR>Phone:
214-244-4827<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<P>Respectful regards,<BR><BR>Jeffrey A. Williams<BR>Spokesman for INEGroup
LLA. - (Over 294k members/stakeholders and growing, strong!)<BR>"Obedience of
the law is the greatest freedom" -<BR> Abraham
Lincoln<BR><BR>"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what
is very<BR>often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt<BR><BR>"If the
probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability<BR>depends
upon whether B is less than L multiplied by<BR>P: i.e., whether B is less than
PL."<BR>United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir.
1947]<BR>===============================================================<BR>Updated
1/26/04<BR>CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of<BR>Information Network Eng. INEG. INC.<BR>ABA member in good
standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<BR>Phone:
214-244-4827<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>
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