Comment by JoshTriplett
9 months ago
> Putting aside my opinions on La Liga overreach, it will also be a problem if companies get to say to courts "Oh, well, if you block those IPs the internet goes down for your country, so let us know what you want to block and maybe we'll get around to it."
On the contrary, it would be an excellent outcome if the Internet became all-or-nothing, and countries could either choose to provide Internet access or block the entire Internet, with zero ability to selectively block things they don't like.
Doing that via a few centralized CDNs would be bad. Doing that at the protocol level would be excellent.
So... you don't agree with the existence of laws? And differing jurisdictions?
I would like it to be impossible to selectively block portions of the Internet. I would like it to not be an option available to anyone.
...is what most free speech proponents say until they discover child pornography, and then say "well, impossible for anything except child pornography", and then they discover...
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