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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by betterunix2 on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:42AM (#17732722)
Except that the Daily Stormer is still online. As long as net neutrality exists (in practice if not in law) there is no "infrastructure-level censorship" to speak of beyond a slight lack of convenience. What is the worst-case outcome of DNS registrars refusing to do business with nazis? People who want to visit nazi websites would have to type in numerical IP addresses.

The only "infrastructure-level censorship" we should worry about is the Internet itself. As long as you can set up your own servers and host your own services, your free speech rights are not really in jeopardy. Free speech does not mean you have the right to buy the megaphone of your choosing; it does mean that you can voice your opinion using a megaphone, even if you had to assemble the megaphone yourself.

Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by yontherubicon on Friday August 10, 2018 @10:22AM (#17733470)
All true. And yet still we have to grapple with the reality that our public square is in the private sector.