Our subscriber agreement requires legal use, but our policing stops there. As a principle, Internet access companies are not concerned with the qualities of content that travel over their networks. Content providers such as America Online and Compuserve are a different story. They manufacture and control information. We merely route information, in the form of bits, to people who use our service.
Online services are analogous to newspapers and magazines.
Internet access companies are analogous to postal services and phone companies. For as long as we provide access, EarthLink Network will work to ensure the legal and free use of the Internet. I urge you to take part in this activism. But I caution you that the Internet will reject any form of censorship. Rather than try to enforce a code as you propose, I suggest you let the Internet community make its own judgment about content.