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OK, since net neutrality is dead, let's make the best of a bad situation. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T -- why do these companies continue to carry traffic for The Da

OK, since net neutrality is dead, let's make the best of a bad situation. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T -- why do these companies continue to carry traffic for The Daily Stormer, Breitbart, etc.? Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth. After all, they will no longer be able to point to regulatory requirements as an excuse. I am looking forward to the opportunity to laugh in the face of all those "free market conservatives" who think this is a good idea once they start whining about how they are all being silenced (see the reaction to e.g. Youtube, Twitter). Jokes aside, net neutrality is not a partisan issue. It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)...

eighthnate 9y ago
> Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth. And lgbt, atheist and other fake news also. If we are going to censor, why not just censor every anyone might find offensive. > It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)... We live in a strange time. Liberals want net neutrality, conservatives do not. Conservatives want free speech, liberals do not. There was a time when both liberals and conservatives wanted both net neutrality and free speech. But with the media push partisan propaganda, they have been able to normalize censorship in order to consolidate their control over information/propaganda.
- sctb 9y ago
  Could you please improve your insight to provocation ratio? Hacker News is for thoughtful discussion and not political battle, and you've been doing too much of the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ilaksh 9y ago
It's not controversial for most "other" groups either. Many people who think of themselves as free market conservatives will visit r/conspiracy on Reddit, and a headline about losing net neutrality is on the top of that subreddit's front page also.

eighthnate 9y ago

> Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth. And lgbt, atheist and other fake news also. If we are going to censor, why not just censor every anyone might find offensive. > It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)... We live in a strange time. Liberals want net neutrality, conservatives do not. Conservatives want free speech, liberals do not. There was a time when both liberals and conservatives wanted both net neutrality and free speech. But with the media push partisan propaganda, they have been able to normalize censorship in order to consolidate their control over information/propaganda.

sctb 9y ago
Could you please improve your insight to provocation ratio? Hacker News is for thoughtful discussion and not political battle, and you've been doing too much of the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ilaksh 9y ago

It's not controversial for most "other" groups either. Many people who think of themselves as free market conservatives will visit r/conspiracy on Reddit, and a headline about losing net neutrality is on the top of that subreddit's front page also.