Comment by umvi
5 years ago
Well you can always just create your own courier. If you want true free speech these days you need to build your own stack from the ground up anyway.
5 years ago
Well you can always just create your own courier. If you want true free speech these days you need to build your own stack from the ground up anyway.
This is well outside of the practical capabilities of anyone but a nation state or large commercial entity. Even then, it's hard. It's more practical for a physical letter than for digital stuff. For a digital service, you'd have to go down to cabling infrastructure or take something like the SpaceX route and launch satellites. If you need something between a few nearby buildings, it's more practical to come up with a solution, but anything further out ... you're kind of stuck.
(Your ISP classifies as a middle man as well...)
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Beat me to it.
Paranoia is not new.
> you can always create your own courier
It is illegal to compete with USPS to deliver letters.
AFAIK there are exceptions for express couriers, which is why you can still use fedex/ups to delivery documents.
...but you can delivery boxes...?
so put mail in boxes?
I mean, there's DHL, Fedex, and others...
I don't believe the law has ever been revoked that requires anyone sending documents through a non-USPS service* to include the appropriate USPS postage cancelled with a pen along with their shipment
* excepting a point-to-point courier service for some reason
The USPS carved out a few exceptions, like delivering urgent mail. Gaming the system will get you raided by armed agents of the enforcement arm of the USPS.
You start by creating the universe...
Oh? Is the government interfering in your ability to say what you would like to say in an online space?
I really detest this kind of attitude. Yes, the government is NOT restricting what you can say in an online space. But at the same time, there is no government platform I can speak from. They're not stopping me from saying what I want but they're also not giving me a platform.
Why are we giving corporate entities a pass on tyranny? It's not like restricting people's liberties is only something the government can do.
Oooh, you detest my attitude. I'll watch out and be more careful with my word choice next time!
Right, so I agree with all of that. But maybe you should use the proper words to describe what's going on, instead of using alarmist word choices that purposely obscure what the point of the conversation is about.
This isn't a "free speech" issue. It's a wealth equality issue. It's a captalism-gone-amok issue. But it specifically isn't the government out to get you.
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