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...
No! They’re common carriers, god dammit!
AT&T doesn’t get to dictate your political opinions over the phone, and ISPs have no goddamn business even looking at your traffic. They. Deliver. Packets.
And if you don’t think they can do that job as private entities, nationalize them.
Seeing how pedos came out of the woodwork to defend the freedom to share whatever they want on ISPs infrastructure in this very discussion, I don’t mind them having a minimum of oversight on the traffic going through.
You want censorship from snooping because you don’t understand websites.