- From: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:22:48 +0200
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Niels ten Oever <lists@digitaldissidents.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <34CC5D2D-FA28-4282-A8E4-D1EB31AB4453@gmail.com>
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com <mailto:ynir.ietf@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Whether the status code in the draft will be useful for us depends, in part, on the meaning as defined in the document. If it’s phrased so that it only applies to government-mandated censorship as opposed to other kinds of filtering (think net-nanny), then it won’t be useful for us. Otherwise, it might be useful.
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> So, please comment on the meaning as defined in the draft document. I agree, if it suggests that the only legal obstacles are government-mandated, that would be a bug. Does it?
Last time I checked the judiciary was part of government as was the legislature. As the draft currently stands, it covers the case where the Glorious Leader or one of his people called the ISP demanding that the content be filtered, a quash order by a court of law, or the ISP filtering based on guidelines in either laws or government regulation.
What this doesn’t cover is a workplace filtering out Facebook because it’s a time-waster. What it also doesn’t cover is opt-in filtering services, such as parents might get so their kids don’t see inappropriate content. As the draft is currently, the following would be a mis-use:
HTTP/1.1 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
Content-Type: text/html
<html>
<head><title>Inappropriate Content</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Content Flagged As Blasphemy</h1>
<p>This request was blocked by the IntegrityOnline content
filtering service. You are signed up to the Christian
package, which filters out Sex, Atheism, Blasphemy,
Humanism and LGBT.</p>
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</body>
</html>
Yoav
Received on Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:23:21 UTC