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Did you deliberately ignore the note about government induced oligopolies? You don't have a right to free speech on the comment section of my blog, or my twitc
by jknoepfler 7y ago
Did you deliberately ignore the note about government induced oligopolies?
You don't have a right to free speech on the comment section of my blog, or my twitch chat stream, or my discord channel. Those platforms enable me to moderate that content. If they lacked that feature, it wouldn't support or undermine anyone's rights, mine or yours.
- falcolas 7y agoUnless the government provides internet service, what does it matter who runs the ISPs, whether they are "government induced ogliopolies" or plucky startups? They're still private entities; still not protected by your vision of the right to free speech.
- jknoepfler 7y ago"Ownership" is not black-and-white in this space. The government (in the United States anyway) grants/auctions access to publicly owned resources (such as water, power, rail, land, the federal reserve, etc. etc.) for the purposes of creating fundamental infrastructure. How property rights for those resources convey corresponding constitutional rights of users (or other government imposed requirements, see for example insurance and healthcare) is something that is continually in tension and requires constant litigation. As distinct, say, from the twitch chat feed on my speedrunning channel.