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Any semblance of net neutrality in the United States is as good as dead. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s 2010 order that imposed network neutrality regulations on wireline broadband services. The ruling is a major victory for telecom and cable companies who have fought all net neutrality restrictions vociferously for years.
I have no problem with private censorship.
You would not be fine with it When you find out they are censoring you
Again, I have absolutely no problem with private censorship. There is no "right" to be heard.
Again, I have absolutely no problem with private censorship. There is no "right" to be heard.
Again, I have absolutely no problem with private censorship. There is no "right" to be heard.
the idiots writing the decision said:In support of its conclusion that broadband providers could and would act to limit Internet openness, the Commission pointed to four prior instances in which they had done just that. These involved a mobile broadband provider blocking online payment services after entering into a contract with a competing service; a mobile broadband provider restricting the availability of competing VoIP and streaming video services; a fixed broadband provider blocking VoIP applications; and, of course, Comcast’s impairment of peer-to-peer file sharing that was the subject of the Comcast Order.
Why do you oppose government censorship but have no problem with private censorship? Censorship is censorship and if it infringes on my right to free speech I have the right to protest the censorship.
How ever did you come to that?
Because the state has a state granted monopoly on legal force. Any individual can tell a censoring company to walk, I do not want to interact with you anymore, but they cannot tell the government that.
Free speech has nothing to do with private entities or private people, it has only to do with the government suppressing speech.
You think that "right" exists?
The government is not the only entity capable of surpressing free speech. Corperations have the ability to that too, albeit indirectly.
The First Amendment, with regards to free speech...it isn't without limitations. The government (at various levels) can intervene if speech is determined to be outside of its limitations.
If it is an action.
Huh....SPEECH IS AN ACTION...verbally, in art, etc, etc, etc, .....speech is express a multitude of ways...NO? D
And then more competition from corporations who dont censor. Free market win.
No.
Speech is speech until it turns into an action, which comes from that often cited SCOTUS quote about yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Huh....SPEECH IS AN ACTION...verbally, in art, etc, etc, etc, .....speech is express a multitude of ways...NO? Don't answer.
Thanks for that LONG fulfilling response. Anything else? I haven't got much time. Those 1 to 5 word replies and statements are extremely time consuming.
Uh huh...OH MY GAWD...REALLY?
You were not aware?
Why do you oppose government censorship but have no problem with private censorship? Censorship is censorship and if it infringes on my right to free speech I have the right to protest the censorship.
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