On: Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 and Today

[twirlock]

I'm tired of somehow having to accept that giant corporations and their lobbyists get to dictate what I'm allowed to read on the internet.

[lern_too_spel → twirlock]

Which corporations get to dictate what you're allowed to read on the Internet? Are you blocked from accessing a particular server?

[michaelmrose → lern_too_spel]

The grandparent post was calling for internet censorship.

[lern_too_spel → michaelmrose]

No, the GGP post said that Internet censorship by corporations is already happening, and he's "tired of having to accept [it]." The article itself is about proposals for government censorship of the Internet that are not being pushed by corporations.

[allarm → lern_too_spel]

So you’re saying that the censorship by corporations is not a thing? )

[lern_too_spel → allarm]

I'm saying that corporations don't dictate what he can and cannot read. He can access whatever server he wants that serves whatever information the server wants to send.