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> I can live with hypothetically throttled Netflix Sure, Netflix, boohoo. But what about when Comcast blocks savenetneutrality.org? This throttling argument c
by orthecreedence 9y ago
> I can live with hypothetically throttled Netflix
Sure, Netflix, boohoo.
But what about when Comcast blocks savenetneutrality.org? This throttling argument comes up a lot, but it's just the first small step in a logical progression that allows big corporations to censor anything they don't like.
Think, the private version of the Great Firewall of China. But it's ok, because the free market did it, right?
I see your point: things most likely won't change until they get really bad for a good number of people. However, things can get much much worse without John Q Public giving much of a shit. That's why NN is really important now and we can't just let things devolve in the hopes it will spur some bigger shift.
- weberc2 9y agoI'm fine with NN legislation, but it seems like so much of the pro-NN rhetoric even among intelligent people on HN is fear mongering and slippery slope. ISPs have been unregulated for decades and the tales of censorship are scant; certainly not deserving of such apocalyptic rhetoric. In fact, the only censorship I can imagine would be the least controversial--censorship of far-right sites like Stormfront. > But it's ok, because the free market did it, right? Is anyone making this argument? Why is this particular straw man invoked so often? I don't pretend that ISPs are beholden to the market in the same way as other services, but neither can they go around censoring with market impunity.