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...
My comment was top level and a reaction to the article, your ISP doesn’t have to guarantee that it will allow you to pass any data you want through its system because it’s a private company and as such it doesn’t have to give you free speech in the infrastructure it owns. That’s just a fact and an answer to the article posted.
You then asked me why I wouldn’t want free speech to be guaranteed by private companies, implying that I shared the opinion that I don’t want it to be the case, which I didn’t.
I won’t answer that question either because my opinion doesn’t matter since I’m just stating a fact, the US Constitution applies to public space and it would be a violation of the Constitution to make it an obligation for private parties to let anyone say and do whatever they please in their place of business. If you want to have an ISP in the USA that allows people to share whatever they want on their infrastructure then you need it to be ran by the government. It’s that simple.
The only opinion I shared was my dislike of the American definition of free speech which is just an invitation for people to share their vile opinions.
Also you’ll notice in this discussion there are people who want ISPs to not control traffic in order to allow them to freely share CSAM… So… yeah 👍