The Five Levels of ISP Evil

schwit1 writes "Recently a number of ISPs have been caught improperly redirecting end-user traffic in order to generate affiliate payments, using a system from Paxfire. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Paxfire and one of the ISPs. This is a serious allegation, but it's the tip of the iceberg. I'm not sure if everyone understands the levels of sneakiness that service providers can engage in."

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And it continues...

[The Dawn Of Time]

Slashdot's obsession with watering down the meaning of word "evil" until it is useless continues. And surprise! Four of the five point are "evil" because they involve money. Never saw that one coming around here.

Re:Does Verizon FiOS do it?

[circletimessquare]

"This is a constant for human society from tribal ages. We're talking tens of thousands years at LEAST."

oh OK, thank you armchair analyst. i'm glad you've figured it all out from the ivory tower perch of your suburban basement intellectual throne

you will excuse me if i invest in the belief in a better future, rather than wallow in your typical common ignorant nonsense of "it's all the same and it never changes"

women can vote. slavery is abolished. the middle class has risen to take power. this power is being eaten at, but it's not gone, despite hysterics like you who only see gloom and doom, out of your own prejudices, rather than an appreciation of actual historical obvious facts

you speak only to reinforce certain prejudicial beliefs of yours whose only purpose is to extend and embrace the very problems you complain about. you don't make the world better by insisting it never gets better, you moron. duh!

progress is real. if your vast intellectual vault of historical knowledge doesn't see that, you know nothing, and you're an idiot

put it this way: blind optimistic idealism is a problem in this world. yes

but equally problematic is what is embodied in words like yours: a blind know nothing pessism, believing only in stasis

you're not smart if you comment without an appreciation of the challenges you face

and you're equally not smart if you deny that the fight, in the long view, of only a century or two, IS BEING WON

of course we have problems, but we never abandon the long view that progress wins in the end. the historical record clearly shows that, no matter our difficulties

so fuck off, you ignorant pessimistic hysteric