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ISP blocking would be the single best thing to happen to Internet privacy in the last 3 decades. Since it became commonplace for ISPs to trace every single DNS
by zaroth 9y ago
ISP blocking would be the single best thing to happen to Internet privacy in the last 3 decades.
Since it became commonplace for ISPs to trace every single DNS query, HTTP and SMTP header, etc. and then record, analyze and data mine this information in perpetuity, and then leverage said analysis to inject advertising, and then provide real-time tracking information on this analysis, and then....
Basically 99% of the incredibly invasive shit that ISPs do today is legal, and remained legal under the "net neutrality" legislation we had. In fact, several laws require ISPs to keep and provide this information on request, and often without a warrant.
So please bring on the blocking, bring on the fast and slow lanes, bring on the directly visible infringements of our privacy while using the so-called "dump pipes". Because only then will people be motivated to maybe seek out and utilize the myriad technologies available to prevent ISPs from deploying their prioritization and blocking and tracking schemes, and we will all be better off for it.
And while the ILECs continue to burn themselves to the ground, SpaceX can launch their ~10,000 satellites and I'll happily pay them $200/mo for better service in a competitive market unencumbered by regulations which increasingly don't apply to the majority of consumer internet usage (i.e. mobile) anyway.
IMO, the right angle to fight any change in "net neutrality" legislation is a quid pro quo which lifts network management and QoS restrictions on the ISPs in return for federal mandate that localities are guaranteed the right to provide their own local muni-service following a local election majority vote, as well as establishing a Federal fund for low-interest financing of those deployments.
- greglindahl 9y agoSatellite internet is not an unregulated market in the US.