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Expanding Net Neutrality

Should Net Nuetrality be Expanded to providers and hosts?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • No

    Votes: 7 58.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
HonestJoe said:
First, the bakers have no such terms of service, their refusals were decided on the spot. In fact, it could be said that the anti-discriminate laws of the jurisdiction are an implicit part of terms of service for any business subject to them. The hosting services have published terms of services the website owners will have specifically signed up to (even if they didn’t bother reading them).

Secondly, no reasonable terms of service can include factors that have nothing to do with the actual service. The websites weren’t closed because of what the owners have said elsewhere but because of what they actually published on that site. The bakers can’t refuse to serve a couple because of what the owners imagine (fantasise?) what the couple do behind closed doors.
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If you can't have a terms of service that discriminates against gay lovers then like you can't have a terms of service that discriminates against nazis.
 
jdog21 said:
If you can't have a terms of service that discriminates against gay lovers then like you can't have a terms of service that discriminates against nazis.
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You could have terms of service that discriminates against “gay lovers”, though you’d have to manage them within the context of any anti-discrimination laws that apply in your jurisdiction, just as you would in relation to “Muslim lovers” or “black lovers”. The fact remains that the bakers in question didn’t even try to write such terms of service.

The web hosting companies’ terms of service won’t discriminate against “Nazis”, they’ll refer to things along the lines of “offensive and discriminatory content”. The same kind of material but from a pro-black, anti-white point of view would fall foul of the same rules.

This is really off topic for the thread and there’s little point in going around in circles about it. You could make a point of general principle but it will simply never apply in the same way to these very different kinds of case.
 
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