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Ok, thought exercise. Comcast's owner decides that he doesn't like the KKK or any anti-semitic group. And Comcast starts charging them extra, or throttling thei
by scelerat 12y ago
Ok, thought exercise. Comcast's owner decides that he doesn't like the KKK or any anti-semitic group. And Comcast starts charging them extra, or throttling their traffic or blocking them outright. Should they be allowed to?
- tzs 12y agoUnder the FCC proposal, Comcast would not be allowed to throttle or block the KKK.
- AnthonyMouse 12y ago> Ok, thought exercise. Comcast's owner decides that he doesn't like the KKK or any anti-semitic group. And Comcast starts charging them extra, or throttling their traffic or blocking them outright. Should they be allowed to? No, for the same reasons that the government shouldn't be allowed to. Try a different thought experiment. It's 1910 and the government regulates the operation of printing presses such that only one press is operated in each state. Should the government be able to set out regulations with that result and then give the press operator carte blanche to choose whose words can be printed? Should you care whether the thing they're refusing to print is from the KKK or the NAACP?