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RE: The War against the already Open Internet (Part 1)

in #netneutrality7 years ago

"To get back to the issue of decency standard, they are not censorship. Regulation of speech? Yes...but they are not censorship, which is the blocking and suppression of speech." <--- It is censorship. If you violate these laws you get punished, backed by the force of government. In fact, if this isn't censorship... then I want to know what is. If you can be punished for saying something that doesn't violate the rights of others... that's the very definition of censorship.

"So we have decency laws that place regulations on the manner of speech over the public airwaves that are governed on behalf of everyone and therefore require some compromises." <--- What does "governed on behalf of everyone" mean exactly? I'm not governing it. You're not governing it. It's enforced by the government only. JUST the government. It's not on my behalf. No one every asked me to enforce this on my behalf. I'm pretty certain no one asked you. You see where I'm going with this. This is censorship under the threat of violence.

"I am more fearful of the corporations than I am of our government." <--- That's only because, respectfully, you're ignoring the fact that corporations have no real power. They suckle at the teat of government. They have to. Government gives them the power. And any entity that can "give" power is the real power.

"But you have to stop talking about punishing competition. On this topic there is no competiton." <--- You're ignoring the causes and effects here. Your local government punishes the competition by using regulation to prevent them from engaging in business and thus, there is no competition. The regulation IS the punishment that leads to lack of competition.

https://fee.org/articles/mad-about-net-neutrality-and-epipens-blame-regulations/