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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, yes. An ISP has one job, to deliver unfettered bandwidth to the end user. Full net neutrality (unlike what they have over in the USA sadly), zero throttling, etc.

That's their one job. Just as water companies don't get to decide what flavour our water should be, nor our electric company deciding what devices we're allowed to plug in.

Internet is a basic and essential utility in 2023, it should be treated as such.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 8 points 1 year ago

IMHO unfettered also means symmetric transfer speeds so most ISPs fail miserably at doing their one job.

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's KiwiFarms what we are talking about. Just fuck them. They deserve to be censored, and I almost never say this.

[–] rho50@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Of course they do, but it isn't the ISP's job to do so. I believe that is the point that the EFF is making here.

Censorship sometimes needs to happen to protect people, but it should be conducted by website owners/platforms and government authorities -- on each end of the information transaction, not in transit by an ISP.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago

I wish the wouldn't bring abortion into the mix.