Public discourse increasingly relies on these corporate platforms. I don’t think everyone quite understands the implications of normalizing this behavior, and to me that’s frightening.
It may seem like splitting hairs, but it is an important distinction to make.
As for monitoring and throttling personal web traffic from our homes, that's long been an issue which is already an issue and not just with Verizon. EFF has brought suit in the courts, but to no avail, as of yet. So as for being far fetched, not only is it not, it's happening now. Comcast regularly throttles traffic to gaming sites/services during peak television hours. What's the difference?
i find it quite shocking how quickly this is all coming, over a drummed up hysteria.
If democracy does not beat in hearts of all and instead resides in an old building far away then truely its count of future days is not high.
But it's Parler's problem that they've hit this point with so little time to build credible moderation, not anybody else's. Me sowing, me reaping, &c &c.
(And no - it isn't free speech, they're quite happy to ban non-conservatives)