[MGP-Forum Announce] Network neutrality: When does blocking "spam" become political censorship?

Bill Densmore mediagiraffe at journ.umass.edu
Fri Sep 21 00:27:20 CDT 2007


The folks at "giraffe prospect" TruthOut.org have been posting for the 
last several days about alleged problems getting their email messages to 
subcribers who use such services as AOL, Hotmail, MSN, WebTV and Yahoo. 
Follow their saga at:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307Z.shtml

At one level this seems like trouble with spam filtering. But TruthOut 
seems to be having trouble getting a clear explanation from the ISPs. The 
episode is worth watching in light of:

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070906niles/print.htm

-- bill densmore



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