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I find it remarkable that HN readers can be simultaneously in favor of Net Neutrality and in favor of censorship. How can these two opinions coexist? The flipsi
by m0zg 6y ago
I find it remarkable that HN readers can be simultaneously in favor of Net Neutrality and in favor of censorship. How can these two opinions coexist? The flipside is also true: I find it remarkable that conservatives are _against_ Net Neutrality and censorship at the same time.
Whereas the right answer looks pretty obvious to me: I'm for Net Neutrality and against censorship.
- centimeter 6y agoNet neutrality is itself a (soft) form of censorship, in that you're taking away a private party's ability to make pricing decisions on information transfer. That said, I find it much less objectionable than what e.g. Facebook and Google are doing - mostly it just has negative economic consequences.
- m0zg 6y ago> taking away a private party's ability to make pricing decisions on information transfer Seems like it's a soft form of anti-censorship then.
- skybrian 6y agoIt's possible to look at this in a less black-and-white way: when there are multiple parties involved in delivering content (the ISP, the website, and the author), who should decide what happens, and how responsible should they be for the content? Net Neutrality says that the ISP shouldn't decide, but it doesn't cover other disputes.