It's Liz Fong-Jones's internet now, we just use it when we can. Liz is perhaps the single most powerful person online right now. She is a talented network engineer with connections deep in many tech companies and network providers. And she's wealthy enough to not have to work, and devote her time to activism and campaigning.
And with a new ruler come new rules. To wit: the net is not neutral. It is not a dumb pipe or common carrier. If your intent is to spew hate, harassment, or misinformation, your provider is not obligated to relay hate, harassment, or misinformation. They will be asked, nicely, to not relay your packets or otherwise allow your hate, harassment, or misinformation to cross their network. And if they do not comply, their providers will be contacted, and those providers' providers, and so on, and so on.
Any provider in the chain who does not silence hate, harassment, or misinformation will be considered complicit in those activities, deemed a rogue provider, and put on a shitlist. They may be considered fair game -- no one will come to their aid if their infra is hacked or DDoSed. If you want to stay off the shitlist, block the hate content. Close their hosting accounts. Ban them from social media. Blackhole their IPs or delink their ASNs if they self-host. Do not provide them with ancillary services like VPN or DDoS protection.
Oh, and one more thing, the trans community is one you do NOT want to piss off.
Be nice, don't be a TERF, and watch what you say online -- everywhere online.
And with a new ruler come new rules. To wit: the net is not neutral. It is not a dumb pipe or common carrier. If your intent is to spew hate, harassment, or misinformation, your provider is not obligated to relay hate, harassment, or misinformation. They will be asked, nicely, to not relay your packets or otherwise allow your hate, harassment, or misinformation to cross their network. And if they do not comply, their providers will be contacted, and those providers' providers, and so on, and so on.
Any provider in the chain who does not silence hate, harassment, or misinformation will be considered complicit in those activities, deemed a rogue provider, and put on a shitlist. They may be considered fair game -- no one will come to their aid if their infra is hacked or DDoSed. If you want to stay off the shitlist, block the hate content. Close their hosting accounts. Ban them from social media. Blackhole their IPs or delink their ASNs if they self-host. Do not provide them with ancillary services like VPN or DDoS protection.
Oh, and one more thing, the trans community is one you do NOT want to piss off.
Be nice, don't be a TERF, and watch what you say online -- everywhere online.