Your citation was paid for, in part, by Broadband for America — an industry lobbying organization backed by the likes of Comcast.
Lobbying efforts, lobbyist-funded legal opinions, and a captured regulatory body don’t a valid legal/policy argument make.
Yes, congress has given away massive privileges to ISPs and none of the responsibilities; that’s the whole point. That was a mistake; the gift of privatization of a public good.
Thanks to heavy lobbying, ISPs have avoided being classified as common carriers entirely (irrespective of their sitting in a monopoly position).
> Your analysis stops at the point of passage of some hypothetical legislation removing section 230 protections, which is not really the point of my question about free expression. What is the actual downstream systemic effect on what speech users are allowed to express, and that providers are discouraged from permitting?
The downstream effect is that providers either have to take responsibility for what they claim is their own speech, or in exchange for the privilege of a shield from liability for what they post, serve the public good regardless of use or user, and operate their sites as an open public forum.
I think it’d be an incredible improvement to the state of public discourse.
If this particular comment section is any indication, there are large groups of people living entirely in information bubbles that have no idea what their ostensible opposition actually believe, have seemingly lost the ability to actually critically read and understand opposing viewpoints, and whom argue voraciously and without exception against straw men solely of their own devising.
If you're not willing to engage with arguments by people with an agenda, I don't think anyone needs to hear from you on critically reading and understanding opposing viewpoints, let alone public discourse.
Lobbying efforts, lobbyist-funded legal opinions, and a captured regulatory body don’t a valid legal/policy argument make.
Yes, congress has given away massive privileges to ISPs and none of the responsibilities; that’s the whole point. That was a mistake; the gift of privatization of a public good.
Thanks to heavy lobbying, ISPs have avoided being classified as common carriers entirely (irrespective of their sitting in a monopoly position).
> Your analysis stops at the point of passage of some hypothetical legislation removing section 230 protections, which is not really the point of my question about free expression. What is the actual downstream systemic effect on what speech users are allowed to express, and that providers are discouraged from permitting?
The downstream effect is that providers either have to take responsibility for what they claim is their own speech, or in exchange for the privilege of a shield from liability for what they post, serve the public good regardless of use or user, and operate their sites as an open public forum.
I think it’d be an incredible improvement to the state of public discourse.
If this particular comment section is any indication, there are large groups of people living entirely in information bubbles that have no idea what their ostensible opposition actually believe, have seemingly lost the ability to actually critically read and understand opposing viewpoints, and whom argue voraciously and without exception against straw men solely of their own devising.