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More on ISP Agreement Regarding Child Pornography Sites

By Corey Rayburnyung

Dan Filler at The Faculty Lounge covers the story that I mentioned yesterday and addresses the problem of public/private coordination:Private ISP's are (largely) free to shut down any information streams they choose - whether that be child pornography or criticism of their own brand.  We don't call that censorship - we call it the free market.  But when these companies manage their own litigation risk by agreeing to censor material, we start to see how markets don't necessarily provide free information flow.  And when the litigation risk is created by government agencies, things get even stickier.  Here, pressure from the New York Attorney General will result in changes in information flow for people across the entire country - because Verizon isn't just going to block sites for New York customers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).