Userland-as-sender (in this case Dave Winer) said something about Conxion, using Conxion as the medium, and you and I were the recievers. By exerting pressure on Userland to change their message, Conxion tried to be both the medium and the sender (jointly with Userland). That is a breach of the new ethics, IMHO.
The obvious exception is "medium" and "reciever"... the one who owns the line can still browse what the senders are saying... but I don't think they get any special privileges, except what is necessary for administrative purposes only.
In the model of communication rights I've been developing in my head, there are three roles an entity can play: They can be the sender, the reciever, or the medium. That's not new; what is is that I think that you should never be more then one of them at a time, even though we have the increasing ability to do as time progresses.
I've had a motto in life: "If the truth hurts, who's fault is that?" Answering that question is often quite productive; generally, it's not the messenger.
Userland experiences ~10% outage rates, and sends 50+ e-mails? Conxion ignores them. Userland tells world that Conxion can't boast about their uptime? Suddenly Conxion is annoyed and apparently exerted pressure on Userland to not say that. That is not clueful behavior.
Conxion CEO Antonio Salerno had a problem with the statement above.
The liberating power of the Internet at work: On today's Scripting News, Dave critiques Conxion for their advertising 99.999% uptime. Then,
The MPAA has the collective maturity of a toddler... they are throwing a temper tantrum because their favorite toy has been taken away and they have no regard whatsoever for what they may destroy whilst throwing that tantrum. Truly selfish behavior!
Yeah, maybe it seems nasty to allow 2600 to link to sites containing the DeCSS program when they can't carry it themselves... but the alternative is just to wrong to even contemplate.
MPAA Sues to Stop DeCSS Linking: It's still true; if you intend to make people responsible for what's on the other end of the link then you will destroy the Internet. First to go will be the search engines and Yahoo.