Being that I work for one of the largest ISPs, I can answer some of this. ISPs can't integrate something into your modem because we/they don't manufacture or design it. That would be up to the vendor companies like Zyxel and Netopia to do. As for content monitoring.. The most an ISP can do is limit outgoing emails in lumps and block ports like 25 and 80. If we started policing everything everyone does, not only would your ISP rates go back up due to the required resources, but the subscriber base would take a dip because they don't like being monitored.
If you seriously want to eliminate a lot of this, the way to do it is to report SPAM rather than just blocking it. If you get SPAM from a large ISPs domain, report that to them. The ISP will turn off an account for spamming as it's against the TOS. We turn of hundreds of accounts a week due to this and are the leader in the industry in actually prosecuting spammers. In order to do that they have to be reported though. That's the first step.
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Being that I work for one of the largest ISPs, I can answer some of this. ISPs can't integrate something into your modem because we/they don't manufacture or design it. That would be up to the vendor companies like Zyxel and Netopia to do. As for content monitoring.. The most an ISP can do is limit outgoing emails in lumps and block ports like 25 and 80. If we started policing everything everyone does, not only would your ISP rates go back up due to the required resources, but the subscriber base would take a dip because they don't like being monitored. If you seriously want to eliminate a lot of this, the way to do it is to report SPAM rather than just blocking it. If you get SPAM from a large ISPs domain, report that to them. The ISP will turn off an account for spamming as it's against the TOS. We turn of hundreds of accounts a week due to this and are the leader in the industry in actually prosecuting spammers. In order to do that they have to be reported though. That's the first step.