----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Finch" <dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at>
To: "John R Levine" <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>
Cc: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com>; "IETF Discussion
Mailing List" <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:06 AM
John R Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
The UK filter is an "opt out" filter, and I assume that we (the
IETF) opted
out. ...
This isn't the parental filter, this is the child porn filter, which
I am
fairly sure is mandatory, at last on consumer ISPs.
As I understand it this kind of filtering only applies to the largest
consumer ISPs. We don't have any filtering of that kind on the
academic
network I help to look after, for example. The IETF network would not
have
any filtering unless the IETF NOC put it in.
Well, applies to the consumer access supported by the ISP; get a
business contract with the ISP and AFAICT there is no filtering. (Well,
there is, but of e-mail, not web access, based on rules on what is and
is not an acceptable e-mail, rules which are confidential and customers
are not allowed to know. I came across them when I sent an e-mail with
no subject and a three word body - this contravenes the AUP of the
ISP:-(
On the other hand, my local council filters web access heavily and
denies access to a number of wholy innocent sites, such as a bed and
breakfast in the country. I have viewed the site from an academic
network and cannot see what it is the council have latched on to.
Tom Petch
Tony.
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