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by slama 2972 days ago
If he wrote a book with similar content, would you have the social expectation that book stores would sell it or a publishing house would publish it?
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Book publishing has a long tradition of publishing "inappropriate" content, and has never needed regulation. By contrast internet infrastructure is much more an oligopoly by nature of the technology. Much like the telephone has regulation so that someone cannot be cut off by what they say over it - so too should the internet.

For a long time the internet has followed the book publishing model. If one website won't publish your works go to another or start your own. However this model fails if upstream providers refuse to provide you the means to do this. The further upstream you go the fewer entities there are as alternatives.