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Have you ever had your phone call interrupted because the phone company didn't like what you were talking about? Have you ever had your TV get disabled because
by pauldenton 3y ago
Have you ever had your phone call interrupted because the phone company didn't like what you were talking about?
Have you ever had your TV get disabled because your cable company didn't like the content you were watching?
140 years ago in the age of telegram, I suspect they weren't censoring messages they didn't like either.
- jayrot 3y agoThis is such a disingenuous argument, it's painful. Did someone's internet connection get disabled?
- hotnfresh 3y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/09/archives/nixon-critics-complain-of-rejected-telegrams.html https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/09/archives/nixon-critics-co... I was able to read at least part of the article without a subscription. Folks wanted to send Nixon some pointed complaints (go figure, who could have imagined) and telegraph operators weren’t letting them. Seems telegraph companies left matters of decency up to the discretion of the operator, at least by 1970 (and I bet you’d get a lot of “you may take your business elsewhere” for various sorts of messages you tried to send, before that, to the point that much speech was de-facto banned)