<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">That seems too facile. The federal government also built much of the infrastructure you use to live in your house. Does anyone, therefore, have a right to enter your house regardless of your wishes? If this analogy doesn’t convince you, then think if the postal service. Many print magazines depend on the postal service to reach subscribers. The postal service (just shot everywhere — not just the in US) is tax funded. Therefore, shouldn’t magazines be required to publish any taxpayer’s rankings and ravings?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What you can make from the federal government funded the internet shouldn’t be that there are no private spaces on it. Just like if you Have a web site, you should be able to decide what content goes there, including what you care to exclude. For instance, in your blog, you might decide to exclude certain comments or even restrict the readership. I trust you wouldn’t argue that all blogs should be open to anyone placing content on them — even without the blog owner’s consent. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Modern speech doesn’t mean — just like in prior times — someone give you a platform. And this is more about edgelords and alt right trolls wanting a captive audience. They have space they can go to, but recall what happened with Parler. They didn’t like it because they didn’t have opponents to bully or trigger.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dan</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 29, 2022, at 5:31 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] bee having fun<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:#222222">There is an interesting extension being made that speech in our world today isn’t done primarily by the voice but the words we post on the internet. We paid for that, so we have a right to it. spike</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:#222222">I don't get this. Whadda mean, we paid for it? The internet</span>?<span style="color:#222222"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Ja. The internet grew out of the US Department of Defense as a project to facilitate electronic communications should the commies nuke the place. The ARPANET, Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork it was.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">From what I can tell, the federal government does not have the authority to keep any particular individual from using that system. Modern speech requires use of the internet. So… using the internet is modern right to free speech. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:#222222">We paid for fighter jets too, but don't have the right to fly them</span>.<span style="color:#222222"> bill </span>w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Billw, you paid for the jets, you have the right to be protected by them. You also had the right to join the service and compete with skerjillions of others for the assignment to fly those planes. Did you try for that duty? Neither did I. They still cover our asses. Life is good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></body></html>