Just a thought…

Along the loopy lines of logic of this publication ban farce…

Since there is forbidden testimony that is available on the Internet could Internet Service Providers be liable for allowing Canadians to access this testimony? Are ISPs acting as accomplices to the violation of Judge Gomery’s order? (A similar argument is currently being debated before the courts concerning music downloads)

It would be quite simple for Rogers, Telus or Bell to add a few lines of code into their global settings to ban a certain IP address of a certain website (which cannot be named) to prevent Canadians from accessing this information. In fact, an order could come from on high from our government protectors to implement this decree across all servers providing internet access from dialups to University networks. Free speech at Universities? Only when it serves the government!

In fact, this practice is currently in use in China, Cuba and Iran. These countries filter certain internet websites to prevent their citizens from accessing certain information. For example, western media websites such as CNN.com and BBC News are unavailable to most Chinese internet users. I’m sure these countries would be happy to help our government figure out how to protect us from this awful thing called free speech.