Re: Interesting Twist to BANNER ADVERTISING
FRED WROTE:
> What about schools, government ISPs, and others who
> automatically filter out ads, spam and porno? Will the
> schools go to jail?
>
> School systems regularly filter incoming content and
> ads when filters can be programmed to do so. A school
> system just won a big law suit for filtering and
> blocking certain sites. The court ruled it is within
> the system's right to limit or delete materials from
> transmission over its system, including blocking entire
> domains. (I've considered blocking all HotMail.com and
> Yahoo.com because of the huge amount of spam they
> purvey... hundreds of gigs.)
Hi,
There has been enough said out here on this but i had
this nagging doubt ... Here Fred said something about
certain institutions(schools, jails etc.) filtering
some sites and ads.
Now i want to know do these instituions block out sites
which they are well within their right too OR they
block out ads selectively ... if such selectivity can
be exercised ...
2. when a student connects to the internet thru school
what is the school? Is it an access provider? is it
coverred by common carrier liability or is it something
more ... How would you define the role the school is
playing ..does it charge students extra for connecting
to the internet? If it is just an agent for connecting
to the internet .. is it overstepping its bounds ....
i am unfamiliar with internet law ... can any one
suggest some good readings for the same preferably in
public domain ..
Aditya Ganti.
Received on Thu Jan 13 2000 - 00:18:40 CST
