Good news everyone! Thanks to the courts striking down Net Neutrality today...
Your friendly neighborhood corporate providers can now choose what they allow on their servers and what they allow you to view. Of course they will choose where and when you have access to information. And, just like most corporations who broadcast info in public places, they will choose Fox News.
This is of course a GOOD thing.
(More ways in which this cannot POSSIBLY be a bad thing)
Sites like this one of course show severe anti-corporate slants. This means that your internet provider will be well within their rights to decide that it is unacceptable to carry such propaganda on their servers. After all, Television stations are NOT required to show anti-TV screeds, so why should a internet provider be required to prattle on about something dumb like freedom of speech.
In addition, if your corporation is offended by such things as sexualities, alternate lifestyles, or even talk of birth control, they can censor that too! Unfortunately the government cannot, thanks to the court challenges to the Communications Decency Act But don't worry, you have NO free speech rights when it comes to what you do on somebody's server. And really, that's what's the most important thing. Information of course, is only as free as the people who pay for it.
Of course, if you don't like what any particular provider is doing, you can start your own! I'm certain that you have the several million dollars necessary to build the infrastructure on your own. Never mind that the ORIGINAL infrastructure was built by public monies... Nope, if you want a piece of this pie, you're going to have to pony up your own cash. You can't expect to have the government pay to redo work that's already been created.
So really, this is already a done deal. Sure the Supreme Court could take up the case, however, it's not really an issue that has any constitutional grounding. It's clearly a case of property rights.
And as we all know, NOTHING is more important than property. See you over on the Fox News Site, where my comments will be immediately censored for breaching the TOS.
Just remember, you have to remember what rights you actually have: