[governance] Net neutrality: Definitions

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:02:30PM -0700, Karl Auerbach (karl at cavebear.com) wrot
> On 08/17/2010 03:22 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:08:07AM -0700, Karl Auerbach (karl at cavebear.com) wro
> 
> >>>>I can limit or even revoke your access at any time without notice.
> >>>>So can every other operators, except perhaps certain governmental
> >>>>("public") operators.
> >
> >is an overstatement.
> 
> Really?  So I would be prohibited from throwing the power switch on
> my web server or router?  And I would be prohibited from not paying
> my domain name bill and letting my domain name lapse?

No. But your statement above implies you could revoke access to an
individual selectively for any reason whatsoever, and that is not true
if you are doing business here (Finland/Europe).

Of course you can quit doing business if you want and if you're
acting as a private individual in personal capacity, you are
not bound by laws regulating businesses.
Ditto for non-commercial associations (although even those have
some more restrictions than individuals).

> The intrusion on personal choice that you are suggesting is, at
> least to ears of this Californian, rather draconian and contrary to
> the concept of freedom of association (an aspect of free speech
> which is to say the right to not speak to those to whom you do not
> wish to speak.)

In most of Europe (and indeed most of the world, I believe), freedom
of speech is rather heavily limited when it comes to commercial activity.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen
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