I've been an Internet engineer since 1992. I've worked for and with many of the big names of the internet and those you will never know the names of. Getting getting kicked off an ISP service only happened for a few reasons. I have personally removed a few users myself in my day - one for Usenet spamming because it put my relationship with an upstream Tier 1 provider in peril, another for setting up a child porn site, another for launching DDOS attacks from servers in our data center. Otherwise, in 2004 it was still the wild west. You'll have to come up with receipts that show that you were kicked off for political speech from your provider before I'll believe this is what happened to you in 2004 as a result of political speech.

I did get booted from a couple message boards back in 2004 for political speech that didn't fall in line with the local admins. If this is what you mean, then be clear about it. I fucking hate hyperbole.

I've been an Internet engineer since 1992. I've worked for and with many of the big names of the internet and those you will never know the names of. Getting getting kicks off an ISP service only happened for a few reasons. I have personally removed a few users myself in my day - one for Usenet spamming because it put my relationship with my upstream Tier 1 provider in peril, another for setting up a child porn site on one of our virtual server systems, another for launching DDOS attacks from servers in our data center. Otherwise, in 2004 it was still the wild west. You'll have to come up with receipts that show that you were kicked off for political speech from your provider before I'll believe this is what happened you in 2004 for political speech.

I did get booted from a couple message boards back in 2004 for political speech that didn't fall in line with the local admins. If this is what you mean, then be clear about it. I fucking hate hyperbole.