Comments on: Index on Censorship: Shifting Borders http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/12/18/index-on-censorship-shifting-borders/ Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Nick Towner http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/12/18/index-on-censorship-shifting-borders/#comment-27434 Nick Towner Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:24:50 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/12/18/index-on-censorship-shifting-borders/#comment-27434 Commercial censorship has been around for a long time, but most people have never noticed it. Anyone can place a small advertisement in a newspaper column - until you try and use one to publicize your own small ads service and suddenly find it refused. If you have a telephone, you can ring anyone - until you try to contact the Directory service of another telephone company (or in some cases even any 0800 number hosted by another telephone company). Commercial censorship has been around for a long time, but most people have never noticed it.

Anyone can place a small advertisement in a newspaper column - until you try and use one to publicize your own small ads service and suddenly find it refused.

If you have a telephone, you can ring anyone - until you try to contact the Directory service of another telephone company (or in some cases even any 0800 number hosted by another telephone company).

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