Citing 'censorship' concerns, North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter

[getagrip_already]

Source: krem news

A North Idaho internet provider, Your T1 WIFI, confirmed it is blocking Facebook and Twitter from its WIFI service for some customers due to censorship claims.

The move comes after Twitter and Facebook banned President Trump from their platforms due to incitement of violence and undermining the transition of power to President elect Joe Biden.

The social media sites banned the President due to violations of their terms of service. Because Twitter and Facebook are private companies, their bans on the President do not violate the First Amendment, which protects speech from being limited by the government.



Read more: https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/idaho-internet-provider-blocks-facebook-and-twitter/293-867cc22b-fb90-4142-a296-8d800d2a03fb

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The stupid - it hurts. Blocking censorship (which isn't) with censorship (which is).... the new normal?

[Liberty Belle]

1. Nothern Idaho is a hotbed for white supremacists.

That's probably who they are targeting.

[getagrip_already]

4. the full article spells out they are trying to punish facebook and twitter...

I was limited by the 4 paragraph lbn rules.

But they are basically saying if you censor trump, we censor you.

[dhill926]

9. does not sound like a good business model...

then again, they're idiots...

[jmowreader]

50. Not much of a punishment, if you ask me

This ISP serves the remotest and least-populated parts of Idaho.

I suspect this "punishment" will go away as soon as all 1200 of their customers start complaining. Their customer base is the kind of people who move to Idaho from California, then find a church before they start looking for a house. And those folks LOVE Facebook.

[Pobeka]

2. Net Neutrality now! Another thing we lost with Trump. nt

[Fullduplexxx]

3. And just like that the right isnt for free market

[Lithos]

5. Top notch technology

Uses only the best Adobe Flash content on their website.

Single owner. Trumpster (based on his Instagram account).

[getagrip_already]

6. lol.....

adobe has ended support and is requiring users to uninstall it.

Was it cuz of security reasons or just headaches?

But, poor parler has been p3ned.

[Lithos]

15. He made claims of security expertise in his site

So, I guess he knows better than everyone else which is why he maintains the content on his business site.

[Greg K]

44. It's like a 25 year old WWW time capsule. Gotta love the "Logo designs" too.

[Xipe Totec]

8. I suspect some of their subscribers will begin censoring their payments accordingly.

Partial pay for partial service.

[robleb]

31. You, sir,

are CORRECT!

[C_U_L8R]

10. Sounds like this provider doesn't belong on the internet at all

Even if the bigger services that feed it don't cut it off, its customers certainly will.

[mdbl]

11. The users will just find another service

dumbasses.

[getagrip_already]

13. easy in a city maybe, but not in the sticks.....

Most people have exactly one choice for internet access. Yeah, there is satellite or cellular, but it is very expensive.

If you are outside of the metrosexual zone, you don't have a lot of choices.....

[Missn-Hitch]

41. "As long as they don't block the porn. The sweet, sweet porn. The straight kind. None of that

gay stuff. The lard does not approve of the gay stuff."

Is what I think they would say after reading this article.

[bushalert]

12. Terrible copy on their company website.

[mdbl]

14. no kidding. it looks like it was developed in 1996

[twodogsbarking]

16. Blocking due to violation of terms of service.

Seems straightforward and not discriminatory. Suck it up losers.

[getagrip_already]

17. but their poor fee fee's got hurt - is there no recourse?

Can they not overthrow the government over it?

A fee fee denied is a fee fee killed!

[twodogsbarking]

19. I can't help thinking about Don Jr. screaming

in a little girl voice "the President of the United States" when his daddy was spanked by Twitter.

[mdbl]

18. I read their email to their users...

it says you can call and have the sites unblocked if you want to use them. They claim they were getting too many requests to block it so they are doing it in reverse, starting with everyone and unblocking as they get requests. I wonder how many really asked for it to be blocked. Sounds like they will be covered up with work on this one.

[Grokenstein]

45. Ha ha ha ha! Customers have to OPT OUT of their block?

What a spectacular load of BS!

[pecosbob]

20. They might just find themselves cut off with no content to provide

[Ford_Prefect]

21. It's the Fumb Duck Idaho Bundy Republic where nothing is real and anything is true if we say so.

[SpankMe]

22. Ah, right-wing logic! n/t

[iluvtennis]

23. This ISP is only hurting it's customers who want access to Twitter and Facebook. They'll

lose subscribers over this action.

[getagrip_already]

24. rural customers don't have many choices....

They can't afford sat or cell, so they usually only have one choice of isp's.

trapped by monopoly coverage mostly.

[iluvtennis]

26. Wow...sounds like a business opportunity for the entrepreneurs out there. nt

[getagrip_already]

27. sure, go ahead and lay thousands of miles of line

for a few hundred customers. See how the financials look.

Unlike phone service, there is no federal order to force providers to share lines for internet access.

Companies have to lay new lines.

Without federal funding, there is no open and free access from multiple providers like there is with phone service.

Part of the complex web of an open internet for all.

[iluvtennis]

28. Thanks for the clarifying info - didn't know that. Would be nice if some policies could be passed

to force te ISP providers to share lines like is done for phone service.

Everyone should have access to the internet - city folks and rural folks. My opinion only.

[getagrip_already]

29. the phone access was a part of the att breakup.....

The govt wanted to make sure competitors would have access to homes over existing infrastructure.

The internet literally didn't exist back then, so no provisions were added.

maybe something for a new congress.

[Nasruddin]

34. How about a rural 5G-ification initiative?

[getagrip_already]

36. isn't 5g good for like 2000+ feet?

It's not a long distance transmission service. It needs far more towers than 4g.

I don't think it will work in rural areas.....

[mwooldri]

39. A solution that can work...

Set up a non profit organization to lay fiber in the rural areas. Volunteers would lay the fiber. Landowners would grant access for the fiber. Already done in UK : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_for_the_Rural_North

In some places millimeter wave (I e. 5G) can provide a way to connect the "last few yards" but if the houses are thousands of yards apart the only viable way for a good connection is to lay the fiber.

[getagrip_already]

47. this is murca....

You would have to seize rights of way through eminent domain, and since it would be taking from the rich to give to the poor, it would spark violence.

In my town in central mass, there are landowners who refuse to give either the town or electric company access to their property to keep power lines clear of overhanging branches. The assholes don't have any reason, they just won't allow it.

So the idea of landowners in idaho or the dakotas or even mass giving rights of way is sadly misplaced.

[Lancero]

40. That's what Starlink is doing right now.

Already in beta for the northern US, supposedly they're going to be expanding service in a month or two.

[marble falls]

25. That was a dumb ass move.

[live love laugh]

30. Typical Republican approach: hurt everybody in order to get revenge or make $$$. nt

[rdking647]

32. $100/month for 5mbs.

i doubt they have very many customers.

[getagrip_already]

33. customers have a choice of one....

Who will they choose?

[Marrah_Goodman]

35. Stupid business decision.

But hey, it is their business, so let them hurt themselves.

[kimbutgar]

37. Please proceed

You will bleeding subscriptions in the next two weeks.

[relayerbob]

42. I'm sure losing those 500 people are going to drive Facebook under

[Initech]

43. Does anyone still use local ISPs?

I honestly had no idea they were still a thing. I have Verizon and Sepctrum for mine.

[hunter]

48. Comcast can go to hell.

I'm fortunate to live in a place with multiple providers.

Our first high speed internet was a so-called alarm line direct to our ISP. This was before Comcast or Pacific Bell offered residential internet service. It's a DSL line now and much faster than it used to be since AT&T ran fiber to their curbside boxes.

One of our neighboring cities offers free internet to ALL residents. The city played hardball with the telcoms and won. This free service is ultimately supported by premium cell phone and cable services in the form of city leases for cell phone tower sites and cable right-of-ways. This free internet turned out to be highly beneficial to students from lower income families when covid-19 came around.

Some shit-hole U.S.A. states and counties, paid off by the telcoms, have legislated against these sorts deals, preserving the predatory monopolistic behavior of cable providers.

My wife and I live in a neighborhood with excellent cell phone connectivity and good broadcast television reception. Many of our neighbors have abandoned cable and landlines entirely for 4G and 5G service. This becomes an attractive option when cell phone providers such as T-Mobile are offering "free unlimited" DVD quality video and Netflix.

Once upon a time the U.S.A. managed to bring roads, electricity, and telephone service to rural area. There's no reason we couldn't do the same with high speed internet.

My wife's parents live in a rural area and don't have many internet choices. By an accident of geography they are line-of-site to a distant AT&T cell phone tower and use that for their internet. It's expensive, but not as expensive as satellite. Many of their neighbors who can't connect to this tower use satellite internet, or worse, suffer dial-up service over phone lines that were last upgraded in the 'sixties or 'seventies and fail every time the wind blows hard enough to knock down trees.

Our children live in big cities and enjoy high speed fiber internet direct to their homes. They don't subscribe to any traditional television services. Neither do their cousins. They pay no attention at all to traditional television or radio. This probably explains all the television and radio advertising directed to sedentary old farts...

Mostly my wife and I watch Netflix and DVDs. We can 'cast other stuff to our television but rarely do. The last time I played with broadcast television was during the switch-over to digital. We haven't watched any broadcast television for more than a decade and never see any television commercials.

Personally, I think television news and opinion is less than worthless. It appeals mostly to our "lizard brains." Traditional television made Trump. Traditional television needs to die.

I read my news. My wife and I still subscribe to an actual paper newspaper and have electronic subscriptions to other regional and national newspapers.

[JohnnyRingo]

46. Capitalism will prevail. Customer feedback will...

...cause T1 to reconsider to protect their bottom line.
Capitalism is really why Twitter finally banned Trump. He crossed a line and became a financial liability.

The amazing thing is that T1 assumes their customers are as livid as they are and be happy to lose FB and Twitter. "Yeah! Take it away from us!" said no one ever.

Even Pat Robertson would complain if they took away his Pornhub.

[Happy Hoosier]

49. So here's the deal....

We gunna censor them because they censor folks!

LOL.

But hey, it is their choice. I assume people can select another ISP.