Slashdot | Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website
Two things:
1. Why did Aliant not think of this during the Strike last year?
B. This proves that if they want to, an ISP can block any website that they wish, meaning that they could block access to any site (Kiddie Porn, Warez, Music Downloads) they see fit. hmmm, time to watch the lawsuits fly
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Aliant actually did this during the first wave of the Blaster worm outbrake. Windows Update was being DDOS'd by the worm so they blocked access to the Windows Update site (http://update.microsoft.com).
I think its one of those things were it could be used for legitimate purposes but in the end would end up doing more harm than good. It would snowball, and it would snowball quick, IMHO.
For example, child porn is illegal (not to mention wrong on every level of wrong possible). So they start by blocking child porn sites. A-OK by me. Next up is hate websites. So far so good. Now Hollywood and the RIAA are breathing down there necks. So they start blocking popular P2P sites. Shitty but hey, its illegal right. Now they can't waste all there time combing the internet by hand, so they right a script. The script searches out keywords like .torrent, Warez etc. Suddenly blogs are being blocked just for talking about whats happening and then your not on the internet anymore, your on AOL.
I say report the pedophiles to the authorities and let them take it up the ass from buba and give me my free media.
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