Chawin Posted:

no need to worry, the reason this’ll never happen is the same reason they don’t ban smoking: too much business, too much public outroar

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The real reason smoking remains legal is the huge amount of taxation the governments receive from it, as well as the impracticality of enforcing a ban. Which, you know, doesn’t apply to the internet.

Over in England, I’m thinking that we may as well have coin-operated, government-approved internet connections now. First, a hint towards the approval on the filesharing ban, and now this? Can we at least keep the breach of civil liberties to real life?

Admittedely, I could live without filesharing, if it ever came to pbum. Sure, it would **** me off, but a lot of what I download is music, and I own physical copies of pretty much everything I download anyway, since I like to own it.

But stripping back Net Neutrality? Hell no. I don’t want to get into an e-queue.