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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by gruez on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:26PM (#37317322)
>but if we look at e.g. spam nobody argues that spam and spammers should be blocked. Now is spam less speech, because it is not political?

Because the blocking is consensual. You're actively choosing to block out the spam, and if you so choose you can still see the spam. The same can't be said for deplatforming. Even if you want to read kwifarms you can't, because others have presented you from being able to access their site.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by its_ethan on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:32AM (#37317688)
Isn't a decent amount of spam blocked without our knowing? Telecom companies work to prevent spam phone calls, YT/Twitter/FB try to block bots or spam accounts - all that happens without users consensually blocking each account. Most people don't even realize how much "speech" has been blocked that they don't even see?
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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by chonkerz on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:19PM (#37329303)
Spammers have filed free speech lawsuits to try to get blocks taken down.
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