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I think you may have missed the forest for the trees; the concern is about the slippery slope that may lead to a for-profit company (also the risk in case it's non-profit; see OpenAI shenanigans) controlling what content you can read, what operating systems you can download, etc... and the fear is about protection rackets leading us to being stuck with a monopoly or an oligopoly at best that enforce that censorship.


He hasn’t missed it, he (and the others agitating for this) want to be able to pressure certain websites off the internet, whether or not they face action in an actual court.




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