From: Jonathan Wallace (jw@bway.net)
To: Brian Milburn (bmilburn@solidoak.com)

> Dear Mr. Milburn:
> 
> I am a business executive and attorney, publisher of The
> Ethical Spectacle, http://www.spectacle.org, and co-author
> of Sex, Laws and Cyberspace (Henry Holt, 1996), a book
> on Internet freedom of speech.
> 
> In that book, we support blocking software as a less restrictive
> alternative to the Communications Decency Act. Perhaps naively,
> I never imagined that companies like yours would use their
> power in the marketplace not merely to assist parents in
> controlling what their children see, but to block speech
> which has nothing to do with your stated mission.
> 
> Your actions in blocking Bennett Haselton's Peacefire.org
> site and in threatening his ISP with a total block of all
> its subscribers are  extremely reprehensible and reflect very
> poorly on your company. Your customers--and potential purchasers--
>  deserve to have a full understanding of your company's behavior,
> so that they can make informed product decisions. Effective immediately,
> I am mirroring Bennett's essay "Where Do They Not Want You to Go
> Today?" on my site at http://www.spectacle.org/peace.html, along
> with my own essay, "Don't Buy Cybersitter." I will also be distributing
> copies of this letter in the Fight Censorship mailing list
> (which is read by many journalists nationwide) and in other
> Internet publications.
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> Jonathan Wallace
> jw@bway.net