351 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 19 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: Ask SN: Is net neutrality good or bad? meta
It would be as absurd as the postal service deciding what you can or can't write in a letter. Or black listing certain people from even being able to send or receive mail.
Exactly. In the analog world, society has decided that privacy and censorship resistance is important - at least to some degree.
But in the digital world, it's still figuring this out.
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150 sats \ 0 replies \ @chairman_pretense 19 Oct 2023
The fact that in the USA it takes a court order to access the list of books someone has borrowed from a library should show how far we've drifted from upholding privacy laws in the digital world.
People already fought in the highest courts to protect your right to read privately!
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