>> You are talking like there is some basic human right that you should have 
>> access to every single website in existance?  Why on Earth should that be 
>> the case?
>
> 1) because that is how the internet started and has been run for almost 
> it's entire existence. "I'll pass on you packages because I know someone 
> else will pass on mine if and only if everybody does that".

Sure, but that doesn't mean it's illegal not to.

> We don't sell is valid, but I think Warp was more thinking along the lines 
> of not selling and making sure nobody else can sell it.

But they are not doing that.  If the directive is passed through, there is 
nothing to stop an ISP deciding to "sell" or pass-on every single website - 
it's the individual ISP's choice.

> More like Coke buying all the countries main distributors, and forcing 
> them not to transport Pepsi. Possibly legal in the US but definitely 
> illegal in the EU.

I didn't get the impression that this was what the directive was going to do 
at all.  It seemed to me like (in your analogy) the directive would be 
giving the distributors the right to decide what they transported, and if 
they didn't want to transport (say) Pepsi they couldn't be forced to.  It 
just seems silly to me that something forcing that exists already.

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