#commoncarrier — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #commoncarrier, aggregated by home.social.
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Obituary for the late Mark Zuckerberg who turned a Harvard campus creeper app, scraping and rating female students' photos, into a global Public Information Utility, who left this life firmly committed to the right of every member of the Public to enjoy their own truth; and to evade their rights established under the Common Carrier clause of the US Code which was enacted to protect citizens from parasitic utilities like those operated by Meta Corp.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title47/chapter5/subchapter2&edition=prelim
#law #justice #AI #satire #1A #freespeech #commonCarrier #publicUtilities #antitrust #regulation #oversight #publicInterest #publicSector #journo #journalism #RIP #obituary #meta #social #factChecking #disinfo #disinformation #propaganda #truth #truthMatters #facts #factsMatter
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Over the past 20 years, the FCC has dealt with net neutrality 6 times, and this month it will do so for the 7th time because of artificial intelligence.
For those unfamiliar with net neutrality, it’s based on the common carrier: A common carrier holds itself out to provide service to the general public without discrimination (to meet the needs of the regulator’s quasi-judicial role of impartiality toward the public’s interest) for the “public convenience and necessity.” A common carrier must further demonstrate to the regulator that it is “fit, willing, and able” to provide those services for which it is granted authority1.
The idea that an internet service provider (ISP) is a common carrier is a constant battle. Without it, an ISP could slow one company’s content and speed up another company’s for money – despite the quality of content. It’s not hard to see why network neutrality is important in an age of influence, fake news, and manipulation of information from bad actors. Where people differ is who the bad actors are.
But what does that have to do with AI?
…Make no mistake about it, the major AI platforms are not weak wallflowers compared to the ISPs. There is a pressing need for regulatory oversight of the Big Tech companies that have delivered Big AI, including basic concepts such as openness, privacy, and interconnection.
Yet, access to AI for purposes as diverse as medical research or writing a term paper would be compromised without a fair and open internet. The issue before the FCC on April 25 is bigger than the catchphrase “net neutrality.” The 2024 iteration of the open internet debate is the reiteration of an issue that first surfaced in 2004: whether the dominant and essential network of the 21st century will go unsupervised…
“AI makes the fight for net neutrality even more important“, Tom Wheeler, The Brookings Institution, April 9th 2024.
In essence, the perceived value of accessible information has increased. The actual issue itself doesn’t really have to do with artificial intelligence, only the perceived value of the information that the networks connect to.
Access to information is important, regardless of perceived value. If you pay for an internet connection you should be able to get everything available to you instead of turning your internet access into glorified cable television, where you get more content if you pay more while you have no actual control over the content.
What is also interesting is that even if network neutrality is successfully defended, ChatGPT is presently considered 82% more persuasive than humans, as mentioned here earlier this week, and since access to ChatGPT is fairly low cost, it allows smaller pockets to compete with larger pockets for your minds.
And conversely, it allows your voice to compete with larger pockets.
- Per Wikipedia, accessed 13 Apr, 2024 ↩︎
https://knowprose.com/2024/04/13/fcc-ai-and-net-neutrality/
#AI #commonCarrier #FCC #information #netNeutrality #Technology
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The idea that cable providers (or any ISP) would make good copyright cops is terrifying to me (speaking only for myself).
#CommonCarrier #Section230 #DMCA #Copyright #TechPolicy #LawFedi
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America's #NetNeutrality Question: Should the #FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'? - Slashdot
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America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'?
https://m.slashdot.org/story/420820
#tech #technology #web #www #internet #fcc #netneutrality #commoncarrier
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Judge tears apart #Republican lawsuit alleging bias in #Gmail spam filter | Ars Technica
Gmail isn't a #commoncarrier and is protected by #Section230, judge rules.
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@protecttruth In the abstract I agree, and I support some kind of #CommonCarrier status for pervasive #SocialMedia . Some things to think about: #FCC Title II regulation; #Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins; #Section230 ; #NetNeutrality ; and the former #FairnessDoctrine
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CW: Internet as a utility #uspol
The Argument For The Internet As A Utility: Is It Time To Change How It's Delivered? (2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/06/17/the-argument-for-the-internet-as-a-utility-is-it-time-to-change-how-its-delivered/?sh=918915772958 The article is still relevant as the #Senate struggles to confirm consumer advocate Gigi #Sohn as #FCC chair. The pandemic has made obvious what disabled people already knew: #Internet service is as crucial now as wired telephony was in the 20th c. and should be regulated as a utility, not a luxury. #NetNeutrality #utility #CommonCarrier
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@sunquan
> Decentralized trading allows you to trade and play games with anyone, regardless of whether it is a Nazi, bully, racial discrimination, patriarch or the boss of a sweatshop.[translation from Chinese by Baidu.com]
Yes, but at the same time it allows you to to trade and play even if you are an anarchist, ghandian, decolonization activist, feminist, or sweatshop worker. The value of "common carriers" for communicating and transaction go both ways.
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Social Media as Common Carrier and Policing
I've argued for a while that The phone company does not promote content or connections, while algorithmically-driven social media platforms have been doing just that in the name of “driving engagement”.
Pointing this out on Diaspora, Simons Mith responds:
Therefore: if social media companies either choose to or are forced to become common carriers, the ‘driving engagement’ activities that they currently perform will transfer to other parties. But those activities will remain just as pervasive and odious as it they are now, because that’s what works, and the social media companies, once they’re common carriers, won’t be obliged to police it. And I also reckon the police will continue to remain exactly as interested in policing it as they are now.
That's highly cogent.
I'm not entirely sure how to respond, though I do note that earlier networked common carriers are not entirely limited from restricting types of conduct or types of exchanges. Additionally, postal services, railroads, and transit agencies have their own inspectors or police forces. In the case of broadcast networks, there is the network censor and government oversite (FCC in the US). Even hotels have detectives.
@pluralistic might be interested.
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/36cdd860cef60139a303002590d8e506#ed282c70cfde0139eab1005056264835
#CommonCarrier #Internet #PostalService #Telegraph #Telephone #Communications #Railroads #TransitCops #PostalInspectors #RailroadPolice #NetworkCensor #Regulation #Moderation
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Pai’s FCC squeezes in one more vote against net neutrality before election - Enlarge / FCC Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O'Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai partic... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1717679 #commoncarrier #netneutrality #broadband #ajitpai #titleii #policy #fcc
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@ng0 The fights are not about software, they're about politics. Some of us want the #fediverse to be a #CommonCarrier network that allows anyone to communicate without anyone, without permission. Some of us want it to be a #NoHomers club (see the Simpsons episode with the Stonecutters), where only the suitably enlightened are allowed to communicate (as decided by ???).
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If you want #SafeHarbour protections as an intermediary, not a publisher responsible for content, it's only fair that you behave as - and get regulated as - as #CommonCarrier. If you make any editorial decisions whatsoever about who and what can be transmitted through your system, you are behaving as a publisher and it's only fair that you get regulated as a publisher. That means you're legally responsible for all content transmitted through your system. Carrier or publisher, which is it?