📡 RightToPrivacy & Tech TipsAug 30, 2023

ISP's Should Not Police Online Speech: No Matter How Awful It Is

Special interests may seek pressure to expand censorship, to protect financial / influence interests

#ISP #censorship #freespeech #freeExpression #humanrights #civilliberties #rights #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

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

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...

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@RTP In a era where both the left and the right are calling for censorship, eff's position is a breath of fresh air
Aug 30, 2023 at 3:06amWeb
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@smoothride 💯 Naivety to think the precedents won't eventually be turned against their own interests (for those supporting #censorship).

I'm against it. Without change in direction, things progress in the same vein.