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calvoiper

join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA

reply to John Galt
Re: No Free Speech on Free Wi-Fi

This will play out in the courts. Government entities have considerably less leeway in filtering content than a private ISP would have.

This will probably prove to be a weapon for the "bad guys" in two respects:

First, those opposing muni WiFi will use the ensuing court battles as a reason for cities not to deploy muni WiFi.

Second, those opposing net neutrality will say that they type of "moral" filtering being done here would not be allowable if a net neutrality provision were in place, so we shouldn't have net neutrality.

Both arguments are seriously flawed, but will be used against the forces of reason anyway.

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said by calvoiper See Profile :

Government entities have considerably less leeway in filtering content than a private ISP would have.
There you have it...
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