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Great: furniture movers should also have the free speech right to talk about my address, describe all my possessions, etc.

I hire those assholes to transport my bits, unmodified except for TTL, from my endpoint to a peer, no more, no less. Since they have a de facto monopoly I don’t even have the ability to choose an alternative. This exploitative crap must be stopped.



Furniture movers do have that free speech right. It's completely kosher for them to chat with some friends in a bar about how weird your possessions are or how hard it was to get to your address. Maybe ISPs should have special restrictions the same way medical providers do, but there's no general principle that people who discover private things about you aren't allowed to talk about it.


But I suspect people would be perturbed if the moving companies sold that information.


Of course, and many people are perturbed that telecom companies sell their information. However, perturbed != illegal.




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