Re: [Asrg] 4a. Taxonomy. Censorship vs. filtering

["Jon Kyme" <jrk@merseymail.com>]

>   For those who are don't read long messages, I'd like to summarize my
> thoughts in a short message.
> 
> 
>   Censorship =~ rejection of traffic based on content
> 
>   filtering =~ rejection of traffic based on invalid control messages
> 
>   Unlike Telecom, IP sends control traffic "in-band".  This means that
> when that control traffic is filtered, people get confused, and call
> it "censorship".
> 

Can someone remind me why "censorship" must be a Bad Thing. As long as it's
explicit and appropriately authorised, I don't see any sensible objection.

Of course the word "censorship" carries a lot of emotional weight for some
people - I'm not sure it can be defined in narrowly technicals terms as
above - even approximately - It's a social thang.







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