Cable & Wireless a/k/a Cable & Useless a/k/a Cable & Shameless, you know, that rogue bunch of shady telecom pirates who stole INTEL from the Panamanian people to screw everybody with higher prices and lousy service and inventing the 40 second minute - these people are now snooping on your email and even censoring it!

Where's the proof, you ask. Here's the proof. Eric Jackson of The Panama News has maintained for ages a newslist, people who like to receive updates by email whenever a new issue of the online paper sees the light. Has never been a problem, always worked fine, until today. When Jackson sent out an update this morning, the subscribers who use Cable & Brainless as their provider never received it because, says Cable & Gutless, the "message content is not acceptable here". Of course they hide behind some sort of anti-spam firewall bullshit filter, which is just another tool for internet censorship, because the message obviously wasn't spam but a mailing to subscribers. Here's what came back from Cable & Clueless:

This is the Spam Firewall at antispam.cwpanama.net.

I'm sorry to inform you that the message below could not be delivered.
When delivery was attempted, the following error was returned.

: host 201.225.225.165[201.225.225.165] said: 579 message content is not acceptable here (in reply to end of DATA command) Final-Recipient: rfc822; xx@cwpanama.net Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Spam-Firewall; host 201.225.225.165 [201.225.225.165] said: 579 message content is not acceptable here (in reply to end of DATA command) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Eric Jackson" To: "The Panama News email list" Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:51:30 -0500 Subject: most of the culture section and all of the Spanish opinions are up See http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_14/issue_09/culture_01.html et seq and http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_14/issue_09/opiniones_01.html et seq (Still have the gallery guide to do in the culture section)

Spam? A newspaper update? Are you serious? Does this happen to the mass mailings to subscribers of La Prensa as well? We bet you it doesn't. The robber barons of Cable & Shameless are just blatantly snooping on email content and censoring delivery of those messages they deem "unacceptable". Will they start doing the same with your cellphone and drop calls or text messages with content they declare "not acceptable"? We wouldn't be surprised. After all, it wouldn be the first time they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar.