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...
You’re ISP didn’t care. The production companies are the ones finding out your IP address. Your ISP is just passing the message along.
My ISP made me take a push-poll “quiz” before they let me back on.
They’re not innocent in this. They’re complicit. Often because they’re the same damn company as some media zaibatsu.