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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2013-07-22 08:39 am
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Is overblocking defamatory?

If a user of an ISP tries to visit a website controlled by an identifiable legal person, which does not contain any pornography, but the ISP instead serves them a block page informing them that the website does contain pornography, has the person controlling the website been libeled by the ISP? (All three parties located in the UK.)

(If you think Cameron's latest wheeze won't lead to overblocking then you haven't been paying attention to the existing implementations.)

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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2013-07-22 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Given the conceptually appalling approach existing filters take to TLS, I really hope the answer involves heads in sands.

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2013-07-23 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Here, accept this root CA certificate so we can intercept your traffic and send it to the NSA. Because otherwise the terrorists and child pornographers have won."