ISP censored political email, man alleges
Nick Farrell writes in The Inquirer:
A US ISP has being going out of its way to block anti-war emails, it has been claimed.
American online activist David Swanson alleges here that Comcast and Symantec have blocked emails drawing attention to the so-called Downing Street memo, which activists have seized on as proof that the last Iraq war was planned in advance.
He claimed that emails sent to and from his subscribers were blocked for a week as he tried to co-ordinate demos around the United States. As a result, few people showed up.
Swanson said that anyone using Comcast has been unable to receive any email with "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the body of the email," Swanson wrote on his website.
He said Comcast denied it was its problem and told him that Symantec had supposedly received 46,000 complaints about emails with his URL in them and placed a block on emails. But Swanson said that was impossible, as he doesn’t send out that many.
In the end he put Symantec's phone numbers on his site, and after Symantec's communications department received complaints, the block was removed. Symantec said that after the complaints it had a look at the block critera it had written and decided that it was too general.
posted by Fergie @ 7/27/2005 06:30:00 AM
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