How exactly do you think the internet would be "less free". Would there be fines/jail time for sql injection? Port scanning? Issuing DDOS attacks? I guess you'

How exactly do you think the internet would be "less free". Would there be fines/jail time for sql injection? Port scanning? Issuing DDOS attacks? I guess you'd have less freedom to do these things but most of these are against ISP TOS any way. Are you worried about an internet police state enforcing the rules? Make the punishment stiffer and/or secure your servers (not exactly possibly with DDOS) and these "problems" go away. In the early/mid 90's there were lots of high speed chases in Los Angeles. The penalties got stiffer, the media stopped reporting it, no one really cared, and i guess the freeways/roads became "less free".