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Telus Breaks ISPs’ Cardinal Rule

The Telus website blockage story may have come to a close last week with the removal of the block, but its ramifications are likely to felt for a long time to come. The NY Times covers the story today and my weekly column (freely available hyperlinked version, Toronto Star version) […]

August 1, 2005 — 1 comment — Columns

Telus Breaks Net Providers Cardinal Rule

Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 1, 2005 as Telus Breaks ISPs’ Cardinal Rule Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on August 4, 2005 as Telus Breaks Net Providers’ Cardinal Rule Internet service providers always seem to get the first call when a problem arises on the Internet. Lawmakers want […]

August 1, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

Telus Obtains Court Order Against Site

Telus has obtained a court order establishing a number of prohibitions against the Voices for Change website, the site it started blocking nearly a week ago. The order prohibits "the Telecommunications Workers Union(TWU) and its members and anyone else having knowledge of the order from posting for public viewing on […]

July 29, 2005 — 5 comments — News

The Telus Blockade and the Law

Much like the recent Harry Potter injunction, the story of Telus blocking access to a website gets worse the more you think about it. As I noted when the story first broke on Sunday, blocking a million Internet users from a website is not only ineffective, it is dangerous as […]

July 26, 2005 — 23 comments — News

Telus Blocks Subscriber Access to Union Website

Reports today indicate that Telus is currently blocking access to Voices for Change, a website run by the Telecommunications Workers Union. The company has confirmed that its nearly one million subscribers are blocked from accessing the site, though it is obviously available to just about everyone else (and presumably to […]

July 24, 2005 — 6 comments — News