| I support collective licensing... and I wish that the issue wasn't thrown in with these other issues because a 3 strike policy is appalling and it should be illegal.
They should not be able to cut off important communications services for people who have not been found guilty of anything in a court of law, based solely on the sometimes dubious accusations of private organizations.
I know people will say an isp can do anything it wants to with its lines. Then we should either aggressively break up concentrated control over communications infrastructure and enforce a competitive market or socialize the cost of building an open public infrastructure, as we did with the highway system.
The court lawsuits have failed so now they try to essentially privatize the process by acting as court and executioner so they don't have to go through the fussy legal process of proving anything.
This is many steps in the WRONG direction.
I had hoped, when I saw the headline, that it might indicate that the collective license is moving forward. Instead they are replacing one stupid policy with a policy that is even more problematic. They clearly haven't abandoned the bullying approach. |
