[h3]AOL won't deliver emails that criticize AOL [/h3] Opponents of AOL's proposed email tax -- which will charge $0.025 to "guarantee delivery" of email to AOL customers -- are being censored by AOL, which is blocking emails containing the URL [a href="vny!://dearaol.com"]dearaol.com[/a], an activist site for people who want to petition AOL to reconsider its actions. [blockquote]AOL is blocking delivery to AOL customers of all emails that include a link to www.DearAOL.com. Today, over 100 people who signed a petition to AOL tried sending messages to their AOL-using friends, and received a bounce-back message informing them that their email "failed permanently." "The fact is, ISPs like AOL commonly make these kinds of arbitrary decisions -- silently banning huge swathes of legitimate mail on the flimsiest of reasons - every day, and no-one hears about it," said Danny O'Brien, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, "AOL's planned CertifiedEmail system would let them profit from this power by offering to charge legitimate mailers to bypass these malfunctioning filters." [/p][/blockquote] [a href="vny!://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#004556"]Link[/a]
