Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
  • Brave Little Hitachi WandEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    Platforms should, like how we had to shut down our shit posting community for CSAM.

    ISPs are a privatized infrastructure and should really be run as utilities. Like trains or water should be.

    The world has been treated as a for-profit endeavor and this has many regrettable consequences.

    • originalucifer
      0•2 years ago

      exactly. switch my packets, and shut the fuck up.

      the water company isnt trying to upsell me on premium water services, i would like the same from my isp thankyouverymuch.