Automatic responses vary by company and threat, but may include denying network access to individuals below a certain credential level, denying access to the company's most vital data, or simply referring the issue to relevant personnel.
A network spokesperson also denied that network schedulers were aware of World AIDS Month and, in a perhaps unfortunate choice of phrase, characterized the decision to pull the episode as a "straight programming decision".
"These are serious allegations which Ed Westwick has strenuously denied," the network previously said in a statement ahead of the scheduled premiere.
Mortman says C-SPAN has been asking for its own cameras in the House for several years, but leaders of both parties have denied the network.
Southern Company's support for the climate science denier network, meanwhile, goes back more than 20 years.
The creditor list for Alpha Natural Resources -- which filed for bankruptcy last August -- indicates that the company has been especially active in supporting the denier network.
U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker not only launched an investigation of ExxonMobil for defrauding investors and the general public, he also subpoenaed communications between ExxonMobil and many of its denier network groups.
The judge denied TV networks' requests to televise the trial, curbing some of the circus-like atmosphere.
Instead of "outing" The Hacker, they decided to simply deny MIT network access to their servers and thereby prevent any further MIT voting.
In her ruling on Friday denying the network's request, Judge Brinkema said the issue of courtroom television was "a question of social and political policy best left to the United States Congress".
