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Rob Pegoraro Mar 6, 2023

"When's the last time your ISP blocked you from a legal web site?" FCC commissioner Nathan Simington asks at #SOTN2023. "Your ISP isn't stopping you from connecting to any of those things."

That is a respectable argument against net-neutrality rules--that the danger of ISPs tampering with traffic is over. But if you make that, you have to admit that ISPs seriously talked for many years about doing just that.

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mark Mar 6, 2023

@robpegoraro like alt.bin.boneless ? Cuz all of alt.bin got blackholed all at once, not because it was gone, but because isps friends had had enough of usenet

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Rob Pegoraro

@ATLeagle Can't say I spent any time in that binaries hierarchy! But I also can't say I was surprised at the time to see ISPs drop binaries newsgroups from their news servers first--before dropping Usenet outright.