ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.
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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The EFF is going to bat for fucking Kiwifarms? This is unconscionable.
8 17 ReplyIf foundational human rights are for everybody, except those people. Then they're for nobody.
You have to defend basic human rights for everyone, or they mean nothing
25 1 ReplyIMHO it only counts when you defend the rights of someone you disagree with.
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Principles apply to everyone or no one.
16 0 ReplyPeople who harass other people to suicide don’t deserve to communicate freely. They have shown they are not responsible with that right.
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Yes, and the ACLU has defended the KKK. It's not a right unless it applies universally.
8 0 ReplyI think that was also a bad thing to do.
3 4 ReplyHow is it a right if it isn't universal? If it's taken away from someone else, it can be taken away from you.
6 0 ReplySociety revokes rights from people who show that they cannot be trusted with them.
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