The internet takeover thread

[Speaker to Animals]

There are alternatives to facebook.

There are alternatives to youtube.

Negatory.

Next semester you need to sign up for economics courses so you can learn about a little thing called a network externality. Facebook and YouTube are monopolies because of the network effect. I am sure there were a few smalltime sellers of aluminum back during the height of the Alcoa monopoly too. It was still a monopoly.

[Speaker to Animals]

Answer me this simple question:

What exactly are you going to do when all the network providers refuse to allow network traffic to and from those alternatives?


You supported giving them that power and now you are complaining about the consequences.

[Okeefenokee]

Just look at places like china and iran, and then think what the dems would do with kind of control if they ever took back power.

[Speaker to Animals]

Just look at places like china and iran, and then think what the dems would do with kind of control if they ever took back power.

I didn't call for the government to control the Internet. I called for regulation to prevent discrimination against packet data. I also called for regulations to prevent discrimination against ideas in the domain registries.



Answer the question.

What exactly are you going to do when all the network providers refuse to allow network traffic to and from those alternatives?

[Speaker to Animals]

n August, domain service GoDaddy gave neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move to a different provider, prompting them to briefly move to Google, where the company then seized the website’s domain.

The website was also suspended from Cloudflare, a company that refused to crackdown on ISIS sites in 2015 over censorship concerns, forcing The Daily Stormer to move to the dark web.

In a statement, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claimed, “I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the internet,” admitting,”No one should have that power.”

Following the incident, both former Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) condemned the censorship.

In a statement, the EFF claimed any censorship tactics used against neo-Nazis “will soon be used against others, including people whose opinions we agree with,” while Milo warned “next time it might not be white supremacists, next time it might be just regular right-wingers, next time it might be perfectly respectable, reasonable people.”

Last week, Gab filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Google after the company banned Gab from their Google Play Store.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/09/ ... n-service/


EFF called that one.

Also, as soon as Gab filed against Google, Gab was threatened with losing their domain. There was only one or two domain registries willing to allow them on, and that's tentative even now. If they lose that Gab will have no domain.

[Okeefenokee]

And we've never seen regulations weaponized before, have we?

It's like you're not even thinking.

[Speaker to Animals]

What exactly are you going to do when all the network providers refuse to allow network traffic to and from those alternatives?


You answer first.

[Okeefenokee]

What exactly are you going to do when all the network providers refuse to allow network traffic to and from those alternatives?


You answer first.

Invest in the competitor that decides to eat their lunch while they're being stupid enough to leave it on the table.

Get woke, go broke.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... Go%20Broke

[Okeefenokee]

The same scenario that would be blocked by whatever regulations you would open the door to if you got your way.

[C-Mag]

FCC shutdown Alex Jones terrestrial radio station