[P1] Ttly OT: Fiji exercises internet censorship !!!

[Brian Pearce]

> Now Fintel has decided to cut off access to a certain service of the
> internet. No longer are people on the islands able to use net2phone or
> related voice-chat features!!!

Two things immediately come to mind here...

I think this stretches the definition of the term "censorship" a bit; 
people are being denied access to a given service, not the right to 
express an opinion or belief. I have a hard time seeing this as the 
next step towards denying access to content.

But practically speaking, it doesn't surprise me in the least that a 
phone company would want to limit Internet services that are in direct 
competition with the telecom services that likely provide a great deal 
of revenue (and perhaps even subsidize the costs of the Internet 
services). I wouldn't try to justify this decision, but I can easily 
see why it might have been made.

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net