Not even piracy. Accusations thereof.
Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not a judge, but isn’t internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
ryper@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure this supreme court would rule that people don’t have a right to electricity, or even water. They’ll probably be totally ok with people losing internet access as punishment for crossing media owners.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
or even water
We never stopped the “lol treaties with Native American tribes don’t count” bullshit.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Besides your point but this is the aspect about Gorsuch that I can’t seem to make internally consistent. He almost always rules in terms of native rights – even when, I think, it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle – yet is more than happy to vote as a conservative on all other times and support “industry” and big business (even when it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle).
I know that nothing necessitates a person to act logically and most act from emotion, more than anything, but most people, I find, have a relative reason they think they’re being logically consistent but I can’t seem to suss even that out, with regards to him.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
to be fair the treaty never specified anything about water, and the Navajo nations should have had better lawyers or better guerilla warfare tactics if they wanted more negotiating power.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Pragmatically, yes. Legally, no. Progressives have been fighting for years to get internet classified as a utility in the US, and regressives and (ironically) internet companies have been fighting against that effort at every turn in the name of profit.
And now look how well that’s turned out. Gee, if only some people had warned them that deregulation was a monkey’s paw…
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Inb4 palantir cuts off your electric and water because you had 15% eye distraction during the mandatory 3hr nightly fox news viewing.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
bottle water companies would love this, as would the oil giants
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
accused piracy, too. Not proven. Not convicted. Just “pirate go bye bye.”
A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m some places in the States they will cut off your electricity or water for sharing with a neighbor that has had theirs shut off. I have seen both happen personally, and not in some back water state. They both happened in upstate NY.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For straight up running a hose or an extension cord so they’re not completely doa.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not a United Statesian so I have no clue anymore how it works there, but other places have been making the case that the Internet is an essential service and that access to it is a basic right. So to leapfrog off your question, is that like a poor person stealing a loaf of bread being cut off from food because they didn’t food responsibly enough?
BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately the country I was born in, the USA, is also one that voted against the international resolution to define food as a human right. 😕
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
didn’t many European countries remove People’s hand for theft a few centuries ago?
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
more importantly because of accused. Just accused.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
They will cut off electricity if you do something illegal with it…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This would be the case had net neutrality not been killed off nearly a decade ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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