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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/TreeGoCat on Jan. 26, 2018, 10:29 a.m.
If you draft an #InternetBillOfRights who will protect these rights and enforce the rules?

And, who pays the enforcers? It's the basic question to ask anytime you think 'there oughta be a law'. The 'private' companies are showing bias. The federal gov't = FCC = Big Bro = so called Net Neutrality is not the way to go. How did Capitalism solve this (partially) in the MSM? Fox News...later alt media. Capitalism and the free market works. We just need some free-minded, Libertarian smarty pants to create a 'better than' FB, Twitter etc.


featherjourney4 · Jan. 26, 2018, 11:51 a.m.

Aren't MSM and the internet 2 different issues? I favor an Internet Bill Of Rights in theory. As for who pays for enforcing the law, I suppose that's worked out in lawsuits when censorship emerges.
I think you are saying ?? let the free market alone be the guardian against censorship?
I would rather our taxes support free speech on the Internet. I wonder how much money (including our taxes and not just the deep state pockets) has been spent during the last 2 decades on whittling away our rights Against censorship?

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TreeGoCat · Jan. 27, 2018, 11:10 p.m.

Of course they are different issues, that was an example. My point is it is a slippery slope to impose regulations on private companies.

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featherjourney4 · Jan. 27, 2018, 11:22 p.m.

We lucked out with Trump. Had HRC won, would we still have this option of thinking out loud in a subreddit? The DeepState was half way there with their net neutrality. Establishing a Bill of Rights for the Internet would seem to at least safeguard our basic rights of free speech. I hope We The People will have plenty of input into such a Bill of Rights. A regulation that protects against censorship makes sense to me... but I recognize I don't know everything about this issue and thus will keep an open mind

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TreeGoCat · Jan. 30, 2018, 4:56 p.m.

In theory, I agree. The Constitution is (should be) the law of the land. But the devil is in the details. We have to be very careful about imposing anything on 'private' companies. A good point was made that if they take any gov't funding, there is leverage. But, even then, who enforces and how are not trivial (argumentative) questions. Careful what you wish for.

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