Internet Service Provider blocks social media after Trump's Twitter Ban, allegedly at request of customers

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@theophrastus

Asserting that like the former view of the “air waves” (the EM spectrum essentially) as public, the internet should be declared to be born and exist in the public domain. (…and for what it’s worth, (exactly nothing!), i think that’s what ought to be legally declared)

But the airwaves are limited in a way that the internet isn’t. There really IS only so much spectrum to go around. That was the basis for licensing broadcasters to use it “in the public interest.” Now those licenses have become sinecures, bought and sold with only the slightest lip service being paid to “the public interest.”