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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by shadowgovt on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:25AM (#30219396)
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.

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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by dns_snek on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:08PM (#30223826)
UN answered those questions in 2016.

https://www.article19.org/data/files/Internet_Statement_Adop...

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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes by shadowgovt on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:24PM (#30224037)
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.

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