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Verizon VP says no plans to examine customer traffic
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article published on 30 January, 2008
During a recent Internet policy conference, Verizon Executive Vice President Tom Tauke spoke about his company's position on filtering customers' traffic for copyright violations. "From a business perspective, we really don't want to assume the role of being police on the Internet," said Tauke, adding "We are leery of using these technologies on our networks."
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nobrainer
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31. January 2008 @ 03:30 |
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worried about their profits and the droves of users lost due to anti consumer privacy threatening tactics. Lets hope Verizon has the balls to stick to their words and do not coerce with governments and big business in the snooping practices. But looks like AT&T are happy to set up filters to snoops on their customers, with the recent spying stretching back to 2001 done by this company is anyone really that surprised, that AT&T would jump at the chance to erode more public liberties, maybe the CIA saw a perfect excuses here and one of the scare monger tactics has worked and gained enough support!
We are living in a world of being constantly monitored, and our liberties reduced with each passing day, all being pushed onto us through the fear tactics, and justification of Piracy, Paedophiles and Terrorism!
we are living in a "panopticon prison"
The dictators and fascists will not stop until we have an rfid chip up our arses and all money is transmitted digitally as what is the most heinous crime, any form of tax evasion obviously.
"Homegrown Terrorism" Bill all Americans read this and write to your governor,ect as this is another step towards fascism the USA.
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maryjayne
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31. January 2008 @ 10:25 |
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If ISPs were forced to start monitoring their traffic, then I am sure there will be a huge drop in ISPs since profits will be down from everyone switching back to Dial Up. As a Verizon customer for internet service, I am glad that at least one ISP is trying to stick up for the privacy rights of their customers.
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AfterDawn Addict
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1. February 2008 @ 02:25 |
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"examine customer traffic"
Translation we do;t care what you download but we are still going to throttle you if need be.
A question to the cable/phone co. gods out there is one of the reasons for heavy throttling dueto over stating and over selling their overall bandwidth, it seems to me that they are 3-8 years behind asia in bandwidth and ti seems they built slower tech and are expanding on it while they up date to newer tech via placing all the cost on the consumer through messed up plans and rates.
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xempler
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1. February 2008 @ 16:04 |
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Why not just have video cameras set up in everyone's homes and provide DNA samples. Because it's important that we make the RIAA and the rest of Hollywood happy. I think that's more important than our privacy or rights.
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georgeluv
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2. February 2008 @ 11:58 |
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verizon has always had a hands off aproach to their networks. on the verzon 1x cellphone network they let you hack to your hearts delight just dont use too much bandwidth and DONT HACK THE EVDO NETWORK!!!
every isp throttles and they have been doing it for years (pretty much starting the year after bit torrent blew up). america is behind eveyone else in terms of internet speed and consumer cost because in america we have wide open spaces, setting up netoworks is more expensive because they will reach fewer people than say, in china or europe, and thus it will make less money. would you rather have cheap fast internet and live in an aprtment in a densly packed city or would you rather live in a nice big house with a yard and a grage and cars and just have sorta fast internet for ten bucks more per month?
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Amir89
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3. February 2008 @ 11:09 |
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ISPs just provide a service, their not para-legals, their job is NOT to enforce Nazi-like surveillance on consumer Internet traffic.
Are gun companies partially liable for Gun-related deaths? NO.
Stop with this Gestapo crap.
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22. February 2008 @ 15:21 |
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I think we have a situation that does not work out for wither party. One the authorities want to catvh the serial offenders and they are the ones u should go after whereas atm people that are more downloading for personal use and not for finacial gain is the fact here and they should not go after them. We really have a catch 22 situation here where neither side can win but it just rages on between both sides.
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3. June 2008 @ 23:57 |
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Rubbish is the initial article, or else why did today's Verizon notice of changes to services now denote their now reporting to 'authorities' "Reporting of Actual or <get this> Potential Violations of Child Pornography Laws." So now it's potential and who's to say what that means, looking at cheerleader pictures I suppose.
I'm convinced 9-11 was just another pearl harbor, an attack allowed so as to persuade popular opinion as to the need to give unlimited powers back to the man.
How else to assure their new world order and regain power lost from the cold war's end?
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4. June 2008 @ 00:02 |
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Originally posted by wguru:
Rubbish is the initial article, or else why did today's Verizon notice of changes to services now denote their now reporting to 'authorities' "Reporting of Actual or <get this> Potential Violations of Child Pornography Laws." So now it's potential and who's to say what that means, looking at cheerleader pictures I suppose.
I'm convinced 9-11 was just another pearl harbor, an attack allowed so as to persuade popular opinion as to the need to give unlimited powers back to the man.
How else to assure their new world order and regain power lost from the cold war's end?
Anything is possible...but I do not think that government is that well organized :P
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