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> Not offering you their services isn't restricting your freedom.

It is if you have a monopoly.

>Your freedoms don't include a right to other people's services against their will.

They do if you have a monopoly.




They don't have monopolies so your counter is irrelevant.


But what if they do in the future? Suppose the author is right and ISPs don't support any packets/protocols other than FB, GOOG, and AMZN.

Are you arguing that in sum total, humanity is better off allowing private organizations to control communications in order to adhere to free market principles than the reverse?


No, I'm arguing future crime isn't a thing. You don't get to punish people because they "might".




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