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Trump FCC Pick Nathan Simington Wants You To Think Net Neutrality Is A Secret Cabal By Big Tech To ‘Censor Conservatives’ (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 87 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The literal exact opposite.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't wait for them to finally accept climate change is man made, except inexplicably blaming trees and renewables for destroying the climate while promoting a cooling effect from fossil fuels... Whatever it is, it's guaranteed to be evil and dumb as shit.

[+] False@lemmy.world -12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The EFF heavily criticized AWS for removing Parler a few years ago for this reason.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s not Net Neutrality. Comcast stopping a subscriber from visiting Parlor hosted on AWS would be violating Net Neutrality. It’s about getting there, not where it’s hosted. Amazon is fully in their rights to dictate what is hosted on their platform.

[–] False@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm inclined to agree but you can read their stance here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/beyond-platforms-private-censorship-parler-and-stack

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

I’m aware of their stance, and I disagree with it. Beyond that, it’s simply a different issue than Net Neutrality and they aren’t conflating the two. It’s important to understand the difference, especially because a large number of Americans have little to no choice in Internet Service Providers.

It’s a kin to the water company refusing to provide water to a racist on your street. That’s wrong. Water is a utility and should be available to the home owner regardless. However, Walmart should not be obligated to stock water that racist bottles with racist slogans on it in their stores.

[–] jerome@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm surprised at how quickly the internet we're presented, has turned into a right wing cesspool of lies and misinformation.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

For real tho, we should censor their bot/troll farms polluting the internet

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

All of social media are pushing right wing trash hard because that's what gets engagement. Either smug satisfaction from the clowns who agree or rage clicks from people who don't.

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 14 points 2 years ago

censoring conservatives is, unfortunately, the very last thing big tech actually wants.

[–] Four_lights77@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

The unintended consequence of repeated attacks on net neutrality is that so many more people understand what net neutrality is and won’t fall for this bs.

[–] downpunxx@kbin.cafe 6 points 2 years ago

protip : Trump doesn't get to pick shit worth fuck anymore

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What a spectacularly stupid take.