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I'm not suggesting this out of any sense that they are good-faith participants in society or even commercial space. They are however the one point of authentic

I'm not suggesting this out of any sense that they are good-faith participants in society or even commercial space. They are however the one point of authenticated and payment-based contact between all Internet users and the greater cloud. So if there's going to be some form of payment, it's highly likely to come either from the ISP or some collection of government-imposed fees or taxes. The latter could come at multiple levels, e.g., a city, county, state, or federal levy.

protocolture 2y ago
>They are however the one point of authenticated and payment-based contact between all Internet users and the greater cloud. Yeah but we need to diminish their contact with authentication and payments. They have little to no understanding of security. Like you might be thinking "Oh just have comcast do this" and they could probably cobble something together with only a massive data breach once in every 5 years. But think about all the guys in the sticks dealing with Joe Blogs Wisporium or Texas Petes flying internoobs. These solo operators often cant work out telephony or iptv. Having them middleman payments for an extra tax or service is a huge extra risk. I am not even super comfortable with them holding PII or Credity cards as it stands.