Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817
Steven Bellovin
smb at cs.columbia.edu
Fri Nov 6 00:58:51 UTC 2009
On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
> I think the idea is for the government to create an official
> blacklist of the offending sites, and for ISPs to consult it before
> routing a packet to the fraud site. The common implementation would
> be an ACL on the ISPs border router. The Congress doesn't yet
> understand the distinction between ISPs and transit providers, of
> course, and typically says that proposed ISP regulations (including
> the net neutrality regulations) apply only to consumer-facing
> service providers.
>
> If this measure passes, you can expect expansion of blocking
> mandates for rogue sites of other kinds, such as kiddie porn and
> DMCA scofflaws.
>
>
It's worth looking at hhttp://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/ -- a
Federal court struck down a law requiring web site blocking because of
child pornography.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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