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Consider a blacklist of our own, if you write, vote for, or play a role in legislation that restricts and censors the internet you will be barred from using our
by AJ007 15y ago
Consider a blacklist of our own, if you write, vote for, or play a role in legislation that restricts and censors the internet you will be barred from using our service.
Imagine a future in which politicians are incapable of using even the most basic web services and technologies because they have been barred from use. It would be quite an embarrassment if you could not have a Facebook or Twitter account, couldn't advertise on Google, and your email was rejected by most ISPs.
Of course, this should paint an image of how ludicrous the notion of any blacklist is.
- colinyoung 15y agoI think this may actually be genius. Someone call Zuck, Jack, and Larry.
- notahacker 15y agoI think Wikipedia Italia had a better idea. Forget the politicians, Google and Facebook have the ability to highlight the implications to virtually everybody in the US. Big corporations might not often be inclined towards grandstanding, but there's precedent when it comes to Google objecting to censorship. A little "if this Bill passes, we'll be serving a lot less search results" message above every search performed by US users would be sufficient to make the bill politically suicidal, methinks.
- AJ007 15y agoThinking about it more, this is a great way to spread the message of how awful this bill is. We do not need the big tech companies to sign on, we just need a handful of small startups. Startups are representative of future economic growth and everyone understands this. Example headline would go something like this -- "Fearful new legislation will cripple the internet, a growing number of young tech companies have banned 28 senators from ever using their products." If anyone wanted to do this, I would put up a few thousand dollars.