Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
by shadowgovt on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:25AM
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This argument hinges on whether one believes internet access is a right, and if it is, what form that right takes.
Neither is a settled question, though the world community tends to be leaning towards "yes" as the answer to the first and is busying itself with the mucky process of answering the second.
Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
by dns_snek on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:08PM
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UN answered those questions in 2016.
https://www.article19.org/data/files/Internet_Statement_Adop...
Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
by shadowgovt on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:24PM
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handeave-handwave That document is a good start, but it mostly says human rights that are violated are still violated if they are violated with the Internet. There are a lot of subtle questions of rights collision it doesn't address, to which I was referring (including how freedom of speech and freedom of press interact when the speech is through someone else's service).
... And that's considering only the UN member nations. 70+ nations are not UN members and a statement like this has no bearing on them.
Or maybe we petition those hosting Spotify servers & ISPs to ban the pages.
Actually, should spotify be resolvable by any DNS server hosted by a company?
Huh, or maybe there is a line to draw in the sand that isn't so strict? Nah /s