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An ISP can't connect traffic to an individual. They can't magically prohibit law breaking. They can't perfectly secure their wifi access points. Yet these law
by roc 17y ago
An ISP can't connect traffic to an individual. They can't magically prohibit law breaking. They can't perfectly secure their wifi access points.
Yet these laws would hold private citizens accountable if they are not capable of doing these things.
(To say nothing of those businesses that offer free and open WiFi access to all comers.)
It's surprising to me, in democratic nation after nation, that we're hearing these same arguments again and again: The straight-faced assertion that citizens should have a greater legal responsibility than corporations and that they should have inherently fewer rights (to freely share their internet connection if they wish).