I remember a while ago during the early Pear 2 Pear days, that various groups against p2p filesharing wanted to go after the ISPs and people said "no, the ISPs are our friends".
Well the ISPs are saying Frak You, we will decided what will be on our networks! Does this mean they are not responsible legally for what happens? Therefore they said they want to block viruses and spam, so if I get a virus or scammed by an email, I can sue my ISP for not blocking it? If someone is able to exchange child porn across the network, the CEO and various employers of the ISP get arrested for possession of child porn?
If they want to control the network, fine. But then anything that gets through, the ISPs will be the ones responsible, the ones to blame.
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I remember a while ago during the early Pear 2 Pear days, that various groups against p2p filesharing wanted to go after the ISPs and people said "no, the ISPs are our friends".
Well the ISPs are saying Frak You, we will decided what will be on our networks! Does this mean they are not responsible legally for what happens? Therefore they said they want to block viruses and spam, so if I get a virus or scammed by an email, I can sue my ISP for not blocking it? If someone is able to exchange child porn across the network, the CEO and various employers of the ISP get arrested for possession of child porn?
If they want to control the network, fine. But then anything that gets through, the ISPs will be the ones responsible, the ones to blame.