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

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        Host providers, like they already do

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        12•2 years ago

        The owners of…the sites. How they do that, is up to them. But again, I’ll go back to my construction analogy: There’s a burgaler entering your house, who do you call and why? Not the people that built it.

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        You don’t. Censorship is evil

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