If Biden Wins Say Goodbye to Saidit

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[–]AcceleratedWallops 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

That's a wild hot take.

Pay Comcast $8/mo for the privilege of using Saidit to continue this conversation now!

[–]bobbobbybob 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

no, net neutrality has nothing to do with free speech, but rather the ability of companies to restrict access to services / sites.

One is related to speech, the other to commerce.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's the use of commerce to restrict speech. You're just arguing semantics--the outcome is the same.

[–]bobbobbybob 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sometimes small differences in semantics matter.

net neutrality is all about the $$$$ players. If you sign up with AT&T, maybe they don't let you access Disney+, because they've got a deal with Netflix. Maybe another ISP only lets you access some sites they've made deals with.

We already have a form of it, with many carriers offering free data to facebook, but not elsewhere.

The freedom of speech issues of that are a secondary, and even if you protect that secondary right, unless you deal with net neutrality, it doesn't mean anything.

At the same time, you can deal with net neutrality, but unless you protect freedom of speech, you haven't achieved your goals either.

So both must be addressed, as they are different aspects of the issue.

tl,dr; Yes, semantics. No, 'just'. No, "outcome is the same"

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You need to dig deeper.

[–]scrubking[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That never happened even though people like you said it would. 'net neutrality' is propaganda to make you think that what the govt wants is your freedom when what it really wants is control over what you say and do.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It hasn't happened because it's only been a few years since net neutrality was removed. They would need the public to forget about it for a while and then implement censorship slowly.