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Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by writepub on Sunday November 04, 2018 @03:04AM (#18374817)
About ideals and philosophies - they only matter when pushed to their limits. Free speech only matters when the said speech is disagreeable, ISP power only matters when the ISP disagrees with a website.

Yes - we all approve of the ISP's action, but this instance was in our favor. Will the next be against? Power begets corruption.

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Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by bigiain on Sunday November 04, 2018 @05:33PM (#18378416)
"The next"? How about "one of the previous"???

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/03/07/comcast-xfinity-...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080213/133855251.shtml

Banhof's stance is that they do not even want the capability to block websites. This is something I wholeheartedly agree with. It certainly means some speech with which I strongly disagree is protected as well as speech with which I do agree. ISPs should _not_ have this kind of power. Banhof do not want it, but since they're being forced into acquiring and using that capability, using it to protest against it seems eminently reasonable.

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Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by stale2002 on Sunday November 04, 2018 @05:58AM (#18375272)
Then perhaps ISPs shouldn't be blocking any websites at all.

Unfortunately the courts have made this impossible though. In order to get net neutrality back, they would have to reverse that court decision that forced websites to be blocked.

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