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Re:The ACLU Asks in 1934: Shall We Defend Free Speech for Na... by ForHackernews on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:39AM (#15045039)
I think there's a meaningful difference between a media company (Facebook/Twitter/etc.) and an infrastructure provider.

I expect the electric company to provide electricity to everyone on a non-discriminatory basis. I don't expect publishers to print everything that gets submitted to them.

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Re:The ACLU Asks in 1934: Shall We Defend Free Speech for Na... by the8472 on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:08AM (#15045745)
Facebook claims to provide service to 25% of the world population. I think it's worth considering whether they are communication carriers at this point.

Real-world concepts of common carriers are centered around the concept of natural monopolies arising from local effects. That does not take networking effects into account which can work non-locally.

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Re:The ACLU Asks in 1934: Shall We Defend Free Speech for Na... by PeanutCurry on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:46AM (#15045058)
Could you expand on this a little? I'm confused because the ACLU is not a government organization, they're not part of the infrastructure.
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Re:The ACLU Asks in 1934: Shall We Defend Free Speech for Na... by pls2halp on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:48AM (#15045062)
His parent was referring to Cloudflare suspending their services for the Daily Stormer, which was presumably the impetuous for this whole post.
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