Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This would be the case had net neutrality not been killed off nearly a decade ago

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Net neutrality is why your online jokes were censored under Biden

    – John McRacist, Republican congressman, former CFO of Evil Inc., former lawyer of Vile Ltd., member of Christofascism Society and Roman Salutes to Jesus

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not even piracy. Accusations thereof.

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• ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    or even water

    Already did.

    We never stopped the “lol treaties with Native American tribes don’t count” bullshit.

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, it worked so well at Alcatraz.

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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…

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• SillyDude@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Inb4 palantir cuts off your electric and water because you had 15% eye distraction during the mandatory 3hr nightly fox news viewing.

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  • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    bottle water companies would love this, as would the oil giants

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• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  accused piracy, too. Not proven. Not convicted. Just “pirate go bye bye.”

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• A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?

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    • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For straight up running a hose or an extension cord so they’re not completely doa.

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• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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  • BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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. 😕

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  • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    didn’t many European countries remove People’s hand for theft a few centuries ago?

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  more importantly because of accused. Just accused.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They will cut off electricity if you do something illegal with it…

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