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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by cmh89 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:05PM (#37314752)
If you lived next door to a house that had become a drug spot, would you find it acceptable to call the landlord, tell them what's happening, and then ask them to investigate and evict? I sure would.
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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by ibizaman on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:37PM (#37315055)
The landlord, yes. The electric company directly, bypassing the landlord, probably not.
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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by pessimizer on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:12PM (#37315428)
Why would you call the landlord instead of the police? I'll tell you why you needed to do it for this metaphor - because Kiwi Farms doesn't break any laws and "drug spots" do.

Now, we're deputizing landlords. If that isn't the perfect public-private partnership, I don't know what is.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by cmh89 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:07AM (#37322386)
Who is 'deputizing' a landlord? The police are going to be much slower and ineffective in dealing with the problem than the landlord is, and why shouldn't a landlord take into consideration the effect their renters have on the neighbors in deciding who to rent to.
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