A Canadian site , YellowTimes.org, had to remove content deemed offensive (a photo of an American POW and a photo of a dead Iraqi child) by the company that provides Internet access to their host. [Thanks, Politechbot]

The upstream provider, Level 3 Communications [Hoover's capsule] of Broomfield Colorado, is a multi-billion-dollar company.

Our communication infrastructure should not be in the hands of a few huge companies who can take the content or nature of our communication into account when deciding what to charge or even whether to allow us to use the Net. Posted by bp at March 25, 2003 04:53 PM
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