Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)]

Back in the USENET days we advertised that we carried acccess to all
USENET groups.

One day a customer called asking to speak to me and said he'd like to
complain, we did NOT carry all USENET groups.

I said ok which don't we carry, mistakes are possible, I'll add them.

He got cagey.

I said well how do you know we don't carry all groups if you can't
seem to name which groups we don't carry?

He continued to hem and haw.

I said oh you mean like child porn?

Well, he said, let's say that's so, it would still be fraudulent to
claim you carry ALL groups if you don't carry those, right?

I said wrong, if a druggist says he stocks all drugs that doesn't have
to include illegal drugs.

After offering him a reasonable refund i got him off the phone.

As others have said let's hope that's all that's implied.


On February 27, 2015 at 14:32 khelms at zcorum.com (Scott Helms) wrote:
 > While I view that statement with trepidation, my first guess would one that
 > isn't in violation of state or federal law.  About the only things I can
 > think off hand, ie stuff we get told to take down as hosters today, are
 > sites violating copyright law and child pornography.  I hope that we don't
 > see any additions to that list.
 > 
 > 
 > Scott Helms
 > Vice President of Technology
 > ZCorum
 > (678) 507-5000
 > --------------------------------
 > http://twitter.com/kscotthelms
 > --------------------------------
 > 
 > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Bruce H McIntosh <bhm at ufl.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > >
 > > On 2015-02-27 14:14, Jim Richardson wrote:
 > >
 > >> What's a "lawful" web site?
 > >>
 > >>  Now *there* is a $64,000 question.  Even more interesting is, "Who gets
 > > to decide day to day the answer to that question?" :)
 > >
 > > --
 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > > Bruce H. McIntosh                            bhm at ufl.edu
 > > Senior Network Engineer                      http://net-services.ufl.edu
 > > University of Florida Network Services       352-273-1066
 > >

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        -Barry Shein

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