State Super-DMCA Too True

Tue Apr 1 00:53:36 UTC 2003

> From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen at sprunk.org>
> Common carrier status exists for this very reason.  Unfortunately, it
> probably means we'll have to stop filtering things like spam and DoS,
since
> filtering on content inherently violates common carrier protection -- see
> the smut suit against AOL a few years ago.

Allow me to continue to pummel the poor horse --

What about the customer that requests that the telco block calls from
certain numbers? I don't think that affects common carrier status, but
IANAL.

apl