Re: REVISION re: [IP] Amtrak photo contestant arrested...for taking pictures of... Trains!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: January 5, 2009 3:34:14 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net, "ip" <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@hserus.net>
Subject: Re:   REVISION re: [IP] Amtrak photo contestant  
arrested...for  taking pictures of...  Trains!

At 9:10 AM -0500 1/5/09, David Farber wrote:
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> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@hserus.net>
> Date: January 5, 2009 8:25:25 AM EST
> ...
>
> So how likely was this to be censorship and how likely was this due  
> to the
> carlosmiller site being farbered, slashdotted etc etc?

In retrospect, I suspect it may have been the system that's hosting  
carlosmiller.com that might have unilaterally imposed a temporary  
"Forbidden" 303 error, due to too many hits ... and if so, it was  
probably due to too many hits from Dave's diligent and always-curious  
followers.  :-)

However, the other alternative that was also mentioned, was the  
possibility that Miller might have, himself, blocked access to his own  
site, perhaps on "advice of counsel" ... perhaps until enough people  
contacted him saying he damn-well should NOT self-censor himself that  
way.

Having seen both of these scenarios occur, these TWO alternatives DO  
remain worthy of periodic highlighting - lest either or both become  
even more common!

--jim




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