Comments on: British Residential ISP Censorship News http://www.news.software.coop/british-residential-isp-censorship-news/414/ What software.coop is doing and contemplating Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carl van Tonder http://www.news.software.coop/british-residential-isp-censorship-news/414/#comment-626 Carl van Tonder Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:22:15 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/british-residential-isp-censorship-news/414/#comment-626 Not only did 3 gie me all kinds of lies and flannel when I tried to establish why Mowser[0] was blocked, but they have thus far utterly failed to get back to me (as they promised they would by last Monday) about why I can't access the development version of my college's student website[1]. An interesting tidbit that came from the second battle, however, is that they implement their own filtering above and beyond the IWF blacklist. Some choice words from conversation #1: "We're legally required to use the IWF list" "So why can I get to this site on other ISPs?' "Well I can't comment on other providers" ... "The IWF will listen to individuals but they wouldn't take any input from their corporate partners" .... etc. etc. ad 3-hours-later-am [0] http://mowser.com - a page reformatter for mobiles [1] http://supervacuo.com/stannesjcr Not only did 3 gie me all kinds of lies and flannel when I tried to establish why Mowser[0] was blocked, but they have thus far utterly failed to get back to me (as they promised they would by last Monday) about why I can’t access the development version of my college’s student website[1].

An interesting tidbit that came from the second battle, however, is that they implement their own filtering above and beyond the IWF blacklist.

Some choice words from conversation #1:
“We’re legally required to use the IWF list”
“So why can I get to this site on other ISPs?’
“Well I can’t comment on other providers”
…
“The IWF will listen to individuals but they wouldn’t take any input from their corporate partners”
….
etc. etc. ad 3-hours-later-am

[0] http://mowser.com – a page reformatter for mobiles
[1] http://supervacuo.com/stannesjcr

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