Posted on 01/11/2021 11:51:23 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A North Idaho wireless internet provider says they will be making it easier for their customers to block Facebook and Twitter, after they said they've received "non-stop calls" from their customers asking them to do so.
KHQ spoke with YourT1Wifi owner Bret Fink who said the decision to do this was based only on logistics, not political ideology. Fink says many of his customers aren't tech savvy and he is simply trying to do his best to help as many customers as possible in as easy a way as possible. Fink says following Facebook and Twitter's decision to ban President Donald Trump from the sites, he heard from many customers saying the sites propagate misinformation and are wrongly censoring the President. He says many of his customers are concerned that the sites could negatively impact their children and their community. So he's taken steps to block them, which will go into effect Wednesday, January 13th.
Fink says an email that went out over the weekend was confusing to some people. And KHQ heard from some customers who felt that Fink was the one censoring information, by blocking them from receiving Facebook and Twitter. He says a clarifying email went out Monday morning, which you can read in full below:
Customers,
As you know we sent out a email yesterday that was supposed to say if you want to be blocked from Twitter or Facebook please email, text or call us.
This is for the customers that have expressed they want it blocked to make it easier for us to do it for them, if you don’t want to be added to the block list then you don’t have to do anything as you wont be added to that list instead you will continue with no blocks just like always.
(Excerpt) Read more at khq.com ...
call them and thank them!!
208-641-9255/Toll Free: 888-701-9796
Because people are weak. Ask conservatives who keep tuning into the NFL. If it’s there, they’ll continue to visit it.
Non Sequitur
Makes no sense. You either click on something or you don’t.
Take the Apps off your Phone and move on.
“Because people are weak. Ask conservatives who keep tuning into the NFL. If it’s there, they’ll continue to visit it.”
That may be the answer.
Lack of competition in the marketplace is a problem
And how did we ever survive before FB and Twitter?! ;-)
Actually, the marketplace is trying to correct that, belatedly and with difficulty but trying nevertheless.
I told a friend today about FR. He's currently in FB "jail".
The ISP should go one step farther and redirect DNS for FaceBook and Twitter to other more “acceptable” sites. It’s totally possible, and I can neither confirm nor deny that I’ve participated in that same tactic in the past. :-)
The states begin to fight.
Add umatrix as a browser add
That will show you what really runs each time you go to a page.. block it. 😎😎💪
TWAT will squash them
What do you not comprehend? If the capability exists for an ISP to individually block specific websites, then it can be used to block websites that aren’t ‘requested by the customer’.
It doesn’t matter that some of their customers want this. The fact remains, that ISPs can actually block websites going through their lines of communication. That is dangerous, and will be used against us once when Parlor and Gab and every site the left hates finds workarounds from Apple and Amazon denying access.
“What do you not comprehend?”
Not much.
“ censoring”
Not quite. They are offering a service.
google built their empire by stealing content, they were thieves from day one.
Time for freerepublic.onion?
The way I understand it is they’re no longer carrying their IP addresses.
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