ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awful It Is

Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by LinuxBender on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:40AM (#37320514)

Blocking a country due to scam call centers is kind of horrifying collective punishment.

That it is. It would be in place about a day if even that long. Their government would go round up all the scam center scammers as they already know who and where they all are and the block would be lifted assuming it even managed to escalate to that point.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:29AM (#37323672)

Let's take India as an example:

1) They clearly are able to tolerate being locked out of the internet at least in limited fashion, this is regularly being used to control domestic protests.: https://internetshutdowns.in/

2) If an external party imposes a constraint on a nationalistic government the govt can use this external attack to help bind their country together.

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