Re:F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality
by eighthnate on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:10PM
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> Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth.
And lgbt, atheist and other fake news also. If we are going to censor, why not just censor every anyone might find offensive.
> It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)...
We live in a strange time. Liberals want net neutrality, conservatives do not. Conservatives want free speech, liberals do not.
There was a time when both liberals and conservatives wanted both net neutrality and free speech.
But with the media push partisan propaganda, they have been able to normalize censorship in order to consolidate their control over information/propaganda.
Re:F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality
by sctb on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:50PM
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Could you please improve your insight to provocation ratio? Hacker News is for thoughtful discussion and not political battle, and you've been doing too much of the latter.
And lgbt, atheist and other fake news also. If we are going to censor, why not just censor every anyone might find offensive.
> It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)...
We live in a strange time. Liberals want net neutrality, conservatives do not. Conservatives want free speech, liberals do not.
There was a time when both liberals and conservatives wanted both net neutrality and free speech.
But with the media push partisan propaganda, they have been able to normalize censorship in order to consolidate their control over information/propaganda.