Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”

  • anon232@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Even if that’s true I wouldn’t put it past the companies to find ways to circumvent regulations, and I think trying to advocate for regulating them sets a precedent against the free and open internet that websites are under government control, which shouldn’t be the case. Imagine if government started requiring government ID’s to access all websites (including Lemmy, which is a social network).

    • Spost@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s true that companies will probably try to find ways to circumvent any rules placed on them, but I don’t think that’s a good reason to not make the legislation.

      If regulating social media is an infringement on the free and open internet, does that same logic apply to everything else we regulate? Government mandated ID checking would certainly be bad, but is it a terrible infringement on the internet to say, for instance, “hey, you can’t advertise to children in these ways”?