EFF speaks out against ISPs acting as extralegal digital censors

Reports that a Tier 1 ISP has been partially denying service to a customer in order to censor a contentious online forum raise fundamental questions around freedom of speech.
“ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is,” states the headline of a recent blog by digital civil liberties advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation. The catalyst for that statement was provided by reports that Hurricane Electric, one of the world’s largest internet backbone prov