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Civil Liberties Groups Oppose 'Stealth' Web Blocking

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

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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