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Conservatives are finding out the hard way what liberals were complaining about a decade ago with Net Neutrality and Comcast's argument that charging Netflix up
by kmeisthax 3y ago
Conservatives are finding out the hard way what liberals were complaining about a decade ago with Net Neutrality and Comcast's argument that charging Netflix up the ass was their free speech expression.
That being said, these bills are very, very bad ideas. Let's be clear: no broadcasting medium can work without some mechanism to censor spammers. And this role has to be specialized (rhymes with 'centralized') because nobody wants to spend most of their day online just manually selecting spam to be blocked. If these laws are upheld I can see companies moving to block Texans and Floridians to protect the rest of their country from their legally mandated political spam.
Let's also appreciate that a good chunk of the speech conservatives want to 'protect' is political speech explicitly calling for things prohibited by the 1st Amendment. Shit like banning an entire religion. I personally don't think that should be allowed, though I doubt this particular court's 6-3 conservative majority would go along with censoring the censors.