BTW, The ISP, or Internet Service Provider issue is different in scale and form from the individual site issue. Additionally, individual pages hosted on third party sites and/or equipment are a different issue from both of those, as are blogs and vlogs!
Filtering TCP/IP as an ISP is not exactly like owning a newspaper and deciding what to print; it may be more readily conceptualized as an ISP being able to magically make pages disappear from a newspaper you've already bought, no matter which publisher printed it. The image is one of incredible power- It could be important to apply the principles of liberty(and in the context of this debate, the US Constitution) rather than the licentious propertarianism which libertarians might otherwise risk.
Why concentrate solely on governmental intervention in our speech,but not also on the regulatory actions placed on our TCP/IP soapbox and press, by telecommunications corporations, which are*creatures of the state*? If We can form Congress and still require that"Congress shall make no law...", why can't we demand that artificial corporations abstain from illegal regulatory and espionage activities? Shall I appeal to the Post Roads clause? Interstate Commerce? Zounds, not General Welfare?!?
BTW, The ISP, or Internet Service Provider issue is different in scale and form from the individual site issue. Additionally, individual pages hosted on third party sites and/or equipment are a different issue from both of those, as are blogs and vlogs!
Velitoptorix 3 years ago
Filtering TCP/IP as an ISP is not exactly like owning a newspaper and deciding what to print; it may be more readily conceptualized as an ISP being able to magically make pages disappear from a newspaper you've already bought, no matter which publisher printed it. The image is one of incredible power- It could be important to apply the principles of liberty(and in the context of this debate, the US Constitution) rather than the licentious propertarianism which libertarians might otherwise risk.
Velitoptorix 3 years ago
Why concentrate solely on governmental intervention in our speech,but not also on the regulatory actions placed on our TCP/IP soapbox and press, by telecommunications corporations, which are*creatures of the state*? If We can form Congress and still require that"Congress shall make no law...", why can't we demand that artificial corporations abstain from illegal regulatory and espionage activities? Shall I appeal to the Post Roads clause? Interstate Commerce? Zounds, not General Welfare?!?
Velitoptorix 3 years ago