(keitai-l) Re: legalities

From: Nick May <nick_at_kyushu.com>
Date: 10/19/00
Message-id: <fc.000f76100004acb83b9aca00b70f3f46.4acbc@kyushunet.com>
keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>Common carrier regulations generally exempt carriers from liability for
what
>is carried. 

would those same regulations preclude docomo from blocking access to sites
(even if they wanted to) as they would no longer be a common carrier if
they made choices about the material they carried...?

If they "did an AOL" (a possible, dark future) would they no longer have
CC status?

With regards proxying - governments can be very dim about this. The EU
passed some legislation (as I recollect - might be wrong) that would have
made cached proxiers liable for what was in their cache. This was only
changed later... 

Nick
Received on Thu Oct 19 01:49:30 2000