> If you require ISPs to hand over customer and connection performance data to the government you have government spying What? No. At least in the case of DSL,

> If you require ISPs to hand over customer and connection performance data to the government you have government spying What? No. At least in the case of DSL, the result of link training data is enough - it doesn't reveal anything about the actual person who has ordered a specific broadcast contract, all that the government gets to know is "phone connection X in building Y has usable upstream bandwith A and downstream bandwidth B".