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Two-Tier Internet & The End of Freedom of Speech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-ringing-the-bell dept.

Max Fomitchev writes "The proposed Two-Tier Internet bill threatens not only to raise prices on goods and services served online but also to seriously hamper free speech on Internet by allowing telecom providers choking user pages and blogs not associated with major content providers. What a perfect way of censorship..."

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  1. Re:REDACTED by natedubbya · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Improper use of the word redact. I'm assuming you got this word from the recent The Office episode where the employees could retract their complaints by "redacting" them. The word redact actually has very little to do with deleting or removing content. The definition is more like "edit" and relates to written publications: "to select or adapt for publication."

    It's interesting that a television episode (which was hilarious, by the way) started using a different word, clearly to make it quirky and funny, and now everyone has adopted this new definition. Ok, maybe not surprising, but interesting nonetheless.