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Citing one de-peering request does not scare me. The internet is still a series of dumb tubes, as I see it. I believe in site's rights to maintain themselves a

Citing one de-peering request does not scare me. The internet is still a series of dumb tubes, as I see it. I believe in site's rights to maintain themselves as they will, and this is not a contradiction. That's a high-level concern, one the internet infrastructure doesn't notice or care about. You are absolutely correct that things could get shitty. But I see no indicators on my radar right now that the various anti-internet forces that be in the world are at all embraced or accepted: I think we all still see them as enemy of the common good, quite clearly, and foes to fundamental human rights.

bitwize 5y ago
> The internet is still a series of dumb tubes, as I see it. The internet is a series of contractual agreements between large corporate entities that, till now, have provided an interface that is like a series of dumb tubes. Up till now, they have operated on the principle that everybody has the same color money and should therefore receive the same service. However. These days, large corporate entities need to be aligned with the ESG rules established by the major investment banks who provide them with finances and sit on their boards. That includes an obligation to fight back against forces deemed insufficiently progressive, to avoid the rise of another Trump. Nobody wants to be remembered for complicity in the rise of fascism in the USA, like IBM's complicity in the holocaust. If a site on the internet is seen to be a locus for fascist voices, it will soon be acceptable for that site to no longer be on the internet. Better to enter the kingdom with one eye than to be cast with both eyes into Gehenna.