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> You can certainly go to any public space and do this, however. People do it all the time (admittedly less frequently with megaphones). Are all of the people o
by sbarre 4y ago
> You can certainly go to any public space and do this, however. People do it all the time (admittedly less frequently with megaphones). Are all of the people on street corners doing twirlies with cardboard signs immoral? Billboards would be a gray area example whereby they're hosted on private resources (land) but intrude into public space (view from highway).
Yes I specifically said private spaces for a reason. Apples and oranges here.
There are no public spaces on the Internet.
> Imagine if you accept a "free social media feed" of information about your community, and you "get home" and it's full of ads. Or you accept a "free article" from a website by clicking on a link, and when you load it (consuming bandwidth on a line that you paid for), it contains just as many ads as it does paragraphs of information.
Not sure why you're trying so hard to counter my examples, with inadequate examples to boot?
I am still getting something from that feed with ads, or that article with ads.
If I only get flyers and no cereal, then not the same, right?
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- smallerfish 4y agoThe internet absolutely was a public space until the ads/walled garden model replaced it.
- sbarre 4y agoYou and I have different definitions of public space. I've been on the net since the early 90s, and even back then there were no public spaces. There is nowhere online, and really never has been, where you have a right to be, or where you can express your government-given rights (also, which government? most of us are not US citizens) without anyone having the ability to cut you off or kick you out at their own discretion. Every server, whether it was Usenet, IRC, the web, email, or otherwise, was, and is, owned by a private entity that could moderate, manage and restrict usage as they see fit. If you cause them enough trouble, they will boot you, and have every right to do so. I don't call that public spaces.