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gsa4555@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.

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ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.

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gsa4555@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
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    Platforms should, like how we had to shut down our shit posting community for CSAM.

    ISPs are a privatized infrastructure and should really be run as utilities. Like trains or water should be.

    The world has been treated as a for-profit endeavor and this has many regrettable consequences.

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      exactly. switch my packets, and shut the fuck up.

      the water company isnt trying to upsell me on premium water services, i would like the same from my isp thankyouverymuch.

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        I’d say “don’t give them ideas”, but they only have a few they like and that’s one of them already

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          Nestle: “Write that down, write that down!”

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      No. It’s like expecting construction companies to enforce traffic laws because they build the roads.

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          You don’t. Censorship is evil

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