Re: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-26 Thread Richard Bennett
The U. S. Congress is on the spot already, proposing "strict scrutiny tests" for filtering and forwarding decisions of all kinds. RB Randy Bush wrote: should we now look forward to deep technical opinons from law clerks -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innova

Re: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-25 Thread Randy Bush
should we now look forward to deep technical opinons from law clerks

Re: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-25 Thread John Levine
>Your scholar is wrong -- or he is giving the simplified explanation >for children and others incapable of rational though and >understanding, and you are believing the summary because it is >simpler for you than understanding the underlying rational. Ah, the classic nerd legal misconception. Law

RE: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-25 Thread Keith Medcalf
age- > From: Richard E. Brown [mailto:richard.e.br...@dartware.com] > Sent: Sunday, 25 October, 2009 10:05 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech > > > > Free speech doesn't include the freedom to shout fire in > a crowded theat

RE: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
> Free speech doesn't include the freedom to shout fire in a crowded theatre. It most certainly does! There is absolutely nothing to prevent one from shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theatre. Actually, it doesn't. When I was on-staff at the computer center at Dartmouth, our provost also happe