Emailing "In The Name of Blocking Child Porn, Another Barrier To Entry"
If the carriers determine that they want a marketplace free of competition, it's in their interest to support government initiatives, no matter what they are, that make it more expensive to start up an ISP.
Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable have [agreed ](http://www.internetnews.com/breakingnews/article.php/3752306)to act as an arm of the government, blocking access to child porn websites and bulletin boards worldwide.
No filter can be perfect. Legitimate sites will be blocked. Innocent people will be accused of child porn -- not by a human being but by a flawed computer system.
This is a significant change in government, and nobody's complaining.
Well, a few people are complaining.