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It's a conflation of two separate issues. If you have open network access then you have access to alternative providers that will host people that may be banne
by cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
It's a conflation of two separate issues.
If you have open network access then you have access to alternative providers that will host people that may be banned or restricted on Twitter (see GNU Social and Mastodon).
If you have ISPs regulating what you can and cannot access then you don't even have that choice - you get the worst of both worlds - Twitter acts as a gatekeeper and your ISP acts as a gatekeeper on top of that.
- criddell 9y agoIt is a conflation and if Pai doesn't get this, then he has no business having the job he has. I think he does get it though and this is a tactic that might work for him. I think it's worth making a distinction over regulating the internet vs regulating ISPs. The internet should be unregulated but ISPs should be regulated. ISPs provide a telecom service while companies like Twitter provide an information service. They aren't the same thing at all and we shouldn't let telecom companies pick the winning info service companies.