[FYI] Civil Liberties Groups Oppose 'Stealth' Web Blocking

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165895.html

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Civil Liberties Groups Oppose 'Stealth' Web Blocking  

By David McGuire, Newsbytes  

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,  

18 May 2001, 1:38 PM CST  


A clutch of civil liberties groups on Thursday publicly denounced the 
practice by some Internet service providers (ISPs) of surreptitiously 
blocking Internet users from viewing certain Web sites.  

Led by Peacefire.org - an online group that opposes mandatory 
Internet filtering - the public interest groups issued a joint 
statement calling for two large ISPs to end their alleged "stealth" 
blocking activities. Among the groups that signed the statement were 
the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy 
Information Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  

"If people want to block themselves voluntarily, that's up to them, 
but hardly anybody who is downstream from these blocking ISPs realize 
that's what's going on," Peacefire.org Webmaster Bennett Haselton 
said today.  

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