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3.4.4Digital Society SL4 flashcards

Providers and services

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ISP services other than web access

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ISP services other than web access

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Email, hosting, cloud storage and backup, phone service, domain names, filtering.

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What can an ISP see?

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Which sites you reach and when — the pattern — even where the contents are encrypted.

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Why are providers a point of control?

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Everything passes through them, so courts, governments and rights-holders all enforce through them.

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The judgement line on provider power

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The power is unavoidable — someone runs the wires — so the question is whether its use is visible and appealable.

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