Yes they should, but only after offering the opportunity to fix the infection (how are users going to download patches or find the fix without internet access?)
But I think it's time to go at least one step further. The ISPs are going to have to take the responsibility of blocking access to countries, ISPs, and sites that are infected or the source of infections. Like it or not, one of the biggest problems we have right now is that a massive amount of the traffic on the internet is related to criminal activities. If people came to your door every day and left 50 fliers for bogus prescription drugs, there would be an outcry. If you received 100 phone calls a day offering porn, there would be an outcry. If 200 people very day walked up to you on the street and tried to trick you out of your bank account numbers, there would be panic in the streets.
But all of this happens to internet users every day, and nothing is done because the perpetrators hide in other countries that can't be bothered to enforce laws, or they have a different interpretation of the word "fraud".
If on the other hand, no one in China, Estonia, Russia, or South Korea could reach the Internet outside their country because the backbone providers were required to cut off all traffic to or from those countries until they make an attempt to enforce laws, things would change.
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Yes they should, but only after offering the opportunity to fix the infection (how are users going to download patches or find the fix without internet access?)
But I think it's time to go at least one step further. The ISPs are going to have to take the responsibility of blocking access to countries, ISPs, and sites that are infected or the source of infections. Like it or not, one of the biggest problems we have right now is that a massive amount of the traffic on the internet is related to criminal activities. If people came to your door every day and left 50 fliers for bogus prescription drugs, there would be an outcry. If you received 100 phone calls a day offering porn, there would be an outcry. If 200 people very day walked up to you on the street and tried to trick you out of your bank account numbers, there would be panic in the streets.
But all of this happens to internet users every day, and nothing is done because the perpetrators hide in other countries that can't be bothered to enforce laws, or they have a different interpretation of the word "fraud".
If on the other hand, no one in China, Estonia, Russia, or South Korea could reach the Internet outside their country because the backbone providers were required to cut off all traffic to or from those countries until they make an attempt to enforce laws, things would change.