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Isn't it weird / dangerous that the service provider polices and fines its customers, and not the police? The lack of separation of concerns seems strange, I wo
by jraph 3y ago
Isn't it weird / dangerous that the service provider polices and fines its customers, and not the police? The lack of separation of concerns seems strange, I would also expect that such rules should be laws built from whatever regular system coming from the country, which is hopefully, at least theoretically, democratic?
- Shekelphile 3y agoWouldn't really call it dangerous, ISPs have always cut off people from service doing illegal/unethical things. The weird part is that they're putting a price on it now... implying that it's OK to use their pipe to engage in crime and do morally dubious stuff like swindle old people out of their money as long as they get a cut too.
- AgentOrange1234 3y agoIs it a low price that will give them a cut, or is it high enough to be an effective deterrent?
- fhsm 3y agoSounds exactly like fine as price in the making. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=180117 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=180117
- maxerickson 3y agoNo? They are managing the relationship they have with their consumer customers by enforcing a code of content for commercial customers that communicate with them. I guess there is an argument that the service should be a utility, but I don't think there are currently laws that would force them to carry messages that they expect to be a net harm to their business.
- norwalkbear 3y agoYes, but America is a banana Republic now