Supreme Court opinion, the majority’s decision “permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants one without fear of liability and without lifting a finger to prevent infringement.”
Yes. That’s how that works. That’s how it’s supposed to work. We do not want ISPs to be liable for what happens on the Internet because they run the roads.
I’d be willing to accept an argument that ISPs are providing critical infrastructure and therefore should be nationalized in a similar way to Switzerland, but until that happens, they shouldn’t have any say whatsoever in who or what content gets to be online. The moment you require that of them is the moment that everyone’s traffic will be inspected and judged according to someone else’s sense of morality.
Want some proof of how this can go horribly wrong? Put me in charge of DNS at one of the big ISPs for a month. They don’t get to overrule my decisions! I’ll make sure every conservative website, every politician that supports legislation like this, and every big company that supports it will fail to resolve.
In fact, I might go even further and redirect Netflix, Hulu, and all other streaming sites to pirate equivalents just to make the point. Hopefully, forever.
What would be wrong with that? Clearly, my moral decisions are the right ones! Don’t like it? Take it up with the legal framework bills like this have put into place to protect victims of such abuse: Spend a few million litigating for your rights!
Oh yeah, Russian playbok completely, lol. In Russia they begun their censorship with a premise of fighting piracy.
In fact they pioneered the toolset to prohibit any webpage they don’t like.
It took only a couple of years before political opposition websites became illegal
And now look at them - Actual Whitelist internet. (If you don’t know what whitelist is - they only allow you to visit certain webpages, and block all other traffic, and this is not the exaggeration, it happens right now).
Worrisome
