Thread: The future of free speech
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jnwi is offline jnwi
2010-07-06 , 20:23
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok View Post
But guess what, if 90% of people don't care, then society has deemed that is the proper way for people to live. (Sociology anyone? )
I prefer math. They've just found a very inefficient local maximum


Originally Posted by Laughingstok View Post
Absolutely. If you suddenly were unable to send your mother an email because your ISP deemed it unworthy, and I came to you and all your friends and said "Give me a few bucks and we'll start our own ISP and grow it over time.." you would either agree or continue dealing with the censorship.
Sure, but you'd need so many people agreeing with you that things would never have gotten so bad in the first place. Infrastructure is expensive, and I'm assuming there wouldn't be any line sharing in this future.
Last edited by jnwi; 2010-07-06 at 20:26.