[WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Dec 9 08:10:07 UTC 2008


Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2008/12/8 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
>   
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 2008/12/8 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
>>>       
>>>> Overall, good.  I'll also be blunt: the 'experiment' speculation at the end
>>>> handed her a very strong close for the end of the interview.  Everyone's a
>>>> critic (and these things are so much easier to second guess after the fact),
>>>> yet if another interview such as this comes up it would make a stronger
>>>> finish to wonder how many other websites had been blocked by this
>>>> organization's dubious assessments without appeal, and ask whether they're
>>>> really qualified to play nanny to the public.
>>>>         
>>> Apparently there is a way to appeal, but from I can tell nobody wants
>>> to tell us what it is.
>>>       
>> How do we appeal whatever else they might be blocking?  For all we
>> know there could be dozens of other articles blocked now or in the
>> future.
>>
>> We only know that this page is being blocked because the traffic
>> hijacking caused collateral damage and someone took a lucky guess.
>>     
>
> True, right of appeal doesn't help much with the right to know what
> you are charged with.

In that case you would be appealing against arbitrary action.  Not 
knowing what you are charged with is a common characteristic of 
arbitrary action.

Ec



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