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Duties of US ISPs
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:15:08 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, John Levine wrote:
Also, ISPs in the United States are not common carriers. Even the ISPs that are owned by phone companies (which are common carriers for their phone service) are not common carriers.
The Communications Decency Act, Digitial Millinium Copyright Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act and even ISP's own Terms of Service give operators substantial protection for "Good Samaritan" acts to filter, screen, allow, disallow or report objectionable material.
In addition, under 42 USC 13032, US public electronic communication providers (also known as ISPs) have the *DUTY* to report, not monitor, child pornography to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Failing to file a report could result in a fine of $50,000 or more, except due to a quirk in how the statute was written, apparently no US government agency was given the authority to issue the fines.
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Current thread:
- UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking), (continued)
- UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Sean Donelan (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Keegan . Holley (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Mark Smith (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Keegan . Holley (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Kradorex Xeron (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Stephen Sprunk (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) John Levine (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Barry Shein (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) John Levine (Jun 11)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Roland Perry (Jun 12)
- Duties of US ISPs Sean Donelan (Jun 12)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) William Allen Simpson (Jun 09)
- Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking) Alexander Harrowell (Jun 09)