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Re:British Telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine by regularfry on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:59AM (#2820648)
Part of the problem with this ruling is the abuse of Cleanfeed, BT's blocking system. There are a lot of people in the UK who were only ever happy with Cleanfeed and the IWF being in existence for as long as their scope was limited to the "worst of the worst", clearly illegal content.

This ruling is why, if you're going to have a system like this, it's not enough to simply say "Well, it'll only ever be used for X. Trust us." You have to go through the effort to enshrine that limitation in legislation.

Re:British Telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine by Tyrannosaurs on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:32AM (#2820767)
It's even bad for people who supported Cleanfeed as a solution to those "worst of the worst" problems as this is going to raise a lot of questions about it's use at all.