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Television stations, radio stations and newspapers all decide which editorials to air or stories to cover. There's no requirement that they provide every organi

Television stations, radio stations and newspapers all decide which editorials to air or stories to cover. There's no requirement that they provide every organization equal time to present whatever they think might be valuable. Perhaps if DNS service was regulated as a utility, or if Google was an arm of a state or federal government, there might be something to your argument.

Clubber 9y ago
Anyone can start and distribute a newspaper. Not everyone can broadcast on a spectrum (there are technical reasons to now allow that). If you think of a website as a newspaper, and there are similarities, then this in effect is a private entity preventing someone from publishing and distributing a newspaper.
- cmiles74 9y ago
  In the same way that anyone can start a newspaper, anyone can also start a website. In the same way that someone needs to sell the newspaper vital supplies like paper and ink, so to do websites need to have network providers and web servers. If you think that a pro-Nazi newspaper would have no problem setting up shop, you are sorely mistaken. They will have the same problems as this website and people of conscience will refuse to have them as clients. This website, as would those newspapers, will need to find suppliers sympathetic to their views. That few people are sympathetic to their views, in my opinion, is the market at work.
- willstrafach 9y ago
  Anyone can also set up their own DNS server for people to use.
  - Clubber 9y ago
    Not top level.
    - willstrafach 9y ago
      Users would be free to add the DNS server to their systems.
      - BenjiWiebe 9y ago
        That's what I've been thinking. Maybe Namecoin (.bit) should be taken up by all "Free speech extremists", regardless of which side they are advocating. By Free speech extremists I mean people who agree that Nazi sites should have a registrar, regardless whether you agree with the Nazis or not.
        Clubber 9y ago
        It's troubling when advocating for universal political free speech is considered extreme.

Clubber 9y ago

Anyone can start and distribute a newspaper. Not everyone can broadcast on a spectrum (there are technical reasons to now allow that). If you think of a website as a newspaper, and there are similarities, then this in effect is a private entity preventing someone from publishing and distributing a newspaper.

cmiles74 9y ago
In the same way that anyone can start a newspaper, anyone can also start a website. In the same way that someone needs to sell the newspaper vital supplies like paper and ink, so to do websites need to have network providers and web servers. If you think that a pro-Nazi newspaper would have no problem setting up shop, you are sorely mistaken. They will have the same problems as this website and people of conscience will refuse to have them as clients. This website, as would those newspapers, will need to find suppliers sympathetic to their views. That few people are sympathetic to their views, in my opinion, is the market at work.
willstrafach 9y ago
Anyone can also set up their own DNS server for people to use.
- Clubber 9y ago
  Not top level.
  - willstrafach 9y ago
    Users would be free to add the DNS server to their systems.
    - BenjiWiebe 9y ago
      That's what I've been thinking. Maybe Namecoin (.bit) should be taken up by all "Free speech extremists", regardless of which side they are advocating. By Free speech extremists I mean people who agree that Nazi sites should have a registrar, regardless whether you agree with the Nazis or not.
      - Clubber 9y ago
        It's troubling when advocating for universal political free speech is considered extreme.