I've put some pretty interesting (and important) documents online. The first is a set of court documents that Pennsylvania attorney general Mike Fisher filed last week to force WorldCom to block URLs of alleged child porn sites. In what must be entirely a coincidence, Fisher, a Republican, is running for governor and is behind in the polls by about 7 percent. His filings: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/worldcom.pa.order.092402.pdf WorldCom replied yesterday. It said it would comply -- but technologically had no choice but to block sites by IP address, not URL. It also said complying with the order meant it would have to block those IP addresses not only for Pennsylvania residents, but for *all of North America*: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/worldcom.pa.reply.092402.pdf Previous Politech message: "Pennsylvania county judge orders Worldcom to block sex sites" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04006.html -Declan --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959045.html?tag=cd_mh WorldCom blocks access to child porn By Lisa M. Bowman and Declan McCullagh September 23, 2002, 12:46 PM PT Bowing to an order from Pennsylvania's attorney general, WorldCom will block customer access to some offshore Web sites by the end of the day. Last week, a Pennsylvania judge, at the request of Attorney General Mike Fisher, ordered WorldCom, the bankrupt Internet and voice provider, to block access to five purported child pornography sites. Among those was a site hosted by Terra.es, Spain's largest Internet portal and a division of Terra Lycos. Because it doesn't have the technical capability to stop residents of a particular state from viewing specific Web sites, WorldCom plans to block all of its North American subscribers from some of the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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