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No, we don't feel that more competing infrastructures in the internet market place is ideal, when a decade of use has cemented the path already used.
A business changing phone numbers loses 3/4 of their business right off the bat.
Reason cell companies have to give you the option of keeping your same cell number, or getting a new one.
I've said this before but it bears repeating. We've fallen into an upside down parallel universe when so-called conservatives want to punish private businesses for making business decisions.
Is your private site for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by others?
You better make damn sure there is nothing anyone posts ever that you could be sued for, even if it up for a second and someone screen captures it. You would need review before it went public.
So you aren't familiar with the cases where this happened and the ISP's or site owners have been declared not responsible???
You really didn't know about StormFront? They were allowed to say anything they want including lots about murder and what they want to do to people who are non-Aryan.
The only reason they are shut down is a voluntary action by an ISP...no lawsuits involved, even after millions of posts.
"The DMCA generally shields ISPs from copyright infringement liability under a "safe harbor" provision. To qualify for the safe harbor's protection, an ISP must: (not assist, etc. in personally putting up the stuff, etc.).
ISP Liability for Defamation and Obscenity under the Communications Decency Act
ISPs are not like newspapers and magazines and are protected under Section 230 of the Communications Decent Act (CDA) for liability based on their user's online statements, including defamation and obscenity.
"In one of the first major online defamation cases, the Drudge Report, an online site that offers political news and gossip, stated that an aide of President Clinton had a history of spousal abuse. The aide then filed suit for defamation against the Drudge Report as well as the ISP that hosted it, AOL. The court found that, because AOL was an ISP, it was protected by the CDA"
Your statement "You better make damn sure there is nothing anyone posts ever that you could be sued for, even if it up for a second and someone screen captures it." is incorrect. Of course, I am only basing that on my being a webmaster and host since 1995.
I'm sure you can find a anecdote or cite Gawker (that was different - it was done willfully AND it was not Gawkers host - but Gawker themselves)....
If you run a forum or web site you are not responsible (in any general sense) for what users post as comments or on a forum. No one expects someone to, for example, read thousands of posts per day.
Also, if you run an ISP (servers, server farm. etc.) you are even LESS responsible. Besides that, there are agreements that users OK before they can set up a site on most hosts...
They are not conservatives and especially not liberatrians.
They are national socialists.
Fascists, I think, is the correct terms for "national socialists".
They want a "strong leader" who "makes things right". They don't care about silly things like a constitution...rather they support most anything that their leader suggests.
I think a better name is RWA (Right Wing Authoritarians). There are lots of articles, tests and even a book about it. About 25% of this country qualifies.
"Right-wing authoritarians are people who have a high degree of willingness to submit to authorities they perceive as established and legitimate, who adhere to societal conventions and norms and who are hostile and punitive in their attitudes towards people who do not adhere to them. They value uniformity and are in favour of using group authority, including coercion, to achieve it"
In short, rule by decree and the mob and bullying. "Conservatives" went out of style long ago. No "conservative" would want to borrow another 1.5 Trillion to give tax cuts to billionaires and corporations. No "conservative" would want to start the War on Drugs again. No "conservatives" would want web sites forced to post a certain feed of content.
I should mention that no liberals would want any of those things either.
USA would have split into different countries long before his dream wiould be realized.
He can appoint himself the Dear Leader for life of the Confederate States of America with its capital somewhere in Texas though. I am sure they would be thrilled with having him leader for eternity.
Many of us would be thrilled with them having him as leader for life. It would keep him occupied and the rest of us could just get on with it.
However, do you really believe Trump would ever live in the middle of the country, and leave his beloved coastal urban elites? He won't even spend a night there.
I've said this before but it bears repeating. We've fallen into an upside down parallel universe when so-called conservatives want to punish private businesses for making business decisions.
Some people just like throwing around that word - even tho it has no real meaning that people can understand.
It's just a fad. Sooner or later people using it might carefully explain exactly what they are talking about in their posts. Until then they can just yell "Statist" at anything they don't agree with.
"Statist", given the word, would be someone who is "for the states".
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