more on When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
Date: August 26, 2006 12:00:31 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship

 From the "techdirt" article:

> Broadband Reports points out a press release which says the Culver  
> City, California, <http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/ 
> 77538>will install filters on its muni-Wifi network -- which covers  
> all of one square mile -- to weed out porn and P2P traffic.

An ISP's viewpoint:

While blocking porn is nearly impossible to do well and legally  
questionable under the First Amendment, blocking or at least  
mitigating P2P is an essential responsibility of any ISP -- public or  
private. Not only is the vast majority of P2P illegal (the amount of  
legal activity being so small as to be negligible), but it is, quite  
simply, network abuse. Due to the bandwidth hogging behavior which is  
built -- by design -- into P2P software, a relatively small number of  
P2Pers can render the network unusable for its intended purposes. Any  
responsible network provider simply MUST mitigate P2P, both to  
prevent theft of intellectual property and to ensure the quality of  
service for legitimate users.

--Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET





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