[LINK] Beware of spammer-apologists whining about free speech

[Danny Yee]

Craig Sanders wrote:
> the fact that you are paying some random ISP for
> internet access does not in any way oblige ME to allow you to have
> access to my servers. i can block you or anyone else or any ip address
> from mail, web, or any other service on my machines that i like - and
> there is nothing that you can do about it. they're MY machines, i get to
> decide who has access to them and i get to decide what criteria i will
> use to determine how and when they may be accessed.

This is not so clear to me.  If the machines are your personal
property you may be right, but any ISP or other business that tried
to block email from (say) Aborigines using some blacklist would most
definitely be running afoul of anti-discrimination laws, just as a
supermarket that refused to serve African Americans would be.

Danny.
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