[LINK] FW: ping: Idol blunder links gay porn site

[cas at taz.net.au]

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:25:06PM +1030, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> Unfortunately it just doesnt make a compelling argument guys. If it
> gets reported at all, it becomes, "Net group seeks to harm kids" not
> "Australia's largest ISP fiddles with the DNS to cover up error"
>
> Just which side do you think mums and dads will respond to??

who cares?

the law certainly doesn't.  carriers are not allowed to intercept or divert
communications traffic.

telstra should be smacked good and hard for this so that they, and all other
ISPs and carriage service providers, learn they won't get away with it in
future.

> About all you can do is point out that whilst intentions were good ie "to 
> protect kids from nasty gay porn" the method was bad/wrong/illegal.

telstra/bigpond can use "we were only trying to protect the kids" as a
mitigation argument in court, not as an excuse to avoid court entirely.

diverting the traffic from that web site was a crime, just as smashing that
site's servers with an axe would be a crime - "protecting the kids" doesn't
justify criminal actions.   neither does ignorance of the fact that diverting
the traffic was a crime - both the staff member(s) who implemented the
diversion and the manager(s) who ordered it are liable.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)

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