Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
    • @uisEnglish
      -5•1 year ago

      Dear Faust, another one. It is so much easier to call opponent Hitler/pedophile/terrorist than counter-argue.

      This is discussion about ISP’s surveillance. This is not just attacking posession. This is attacking computer that relayed data stream. Technically it is message sequence, but the fact we have discussion speaks that you doesn’t care. Should postman go to jail if delivered letter contained child pornography? You say that postman should open and read every letter.

      Your only option to not look like complete troll is to somehow define posession in a way that excludes postman(ISP) reading every single letter(spying).

      Here’s my take on your manipulation:

      You will not make espionage socially acceptable and you will not lie to me and say that you aren’t, and then go back to doing so like I know you’re gonna do.