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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:07PM (#37317179)
Remember the Red Scare, when communists, socialists, and leftists were widely hated and persecuted? Do you think such a societal shift can't happen again? Freedom of association for businesses is all fun and games until society's values shift and all of a sudden it's you that's unpopular and businesses start refusing to serve you.
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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by TylerE on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:50PM (#37317456)
That’s a lot more likely if the extreme right is continued to be allowed free rein to terrorize this country.
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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:41AM (#37318113)
The extreme right is growing because the left is utterly failing to make a case for the public to vote for them. Attempting to squash the speech of their opponents when they're not succeeding legitimately just makes the left look even worse and gives the far right the opportunity to play the oppressed martyr.
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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by shadowgovt on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:28AM (#37320988)
Sure can happen again, if it happens again it can be dealt with the same way it was dealt with last time: vote the bastards out and maneuver around Hollywood to make the movies.

We have a very narrow carve out of service obligation that constrains businesses from refusing service for intrinsic properties. Apart from that, at the federal level: no, we don't and shouldn't obligate businesses to serve Communists. We don't obligate them to serve Nazis. We don't obligate them to serve the KKK. We don't obligate them to serve Democrats. A business that's too picky about the color of people's money is a business that leaves money on the table, and that is almost always counterweight enough.

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