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What is Comcast going to do about it? Shut off a paying customer? Not likely.


Voluntarily, maybe not, but we can make it a legal requirement.


Because that worked out so well with file sharing


Because this is exactly like file sharing...


The ways you are asking the government to mutilate the internet are quite similar to the ways the media industries asked the government to mutilate the internet.


Was requiring telephony providers to clamp down on spam or get blocked "mutilating the phone network?"


What I'm calling for is exactly how things are already supposed to work.

The US government should already be infiltrating hacker groups and identifying infected American computers. Internet providers should be informing customers that hackers have compromised their devices.

Characterizing this as "mutilating the internet" is ridiculous.


You said the ISP should be legally required to shut off their internet.


Our government condemns and even demolishes people's houses when they're dangerous or become a public nuisances because their owners fail to maintain them.

Most Americans agree with this policy and don't see it as infringing on their freedom at all. Our choice is to enforce basic standards or allow our cities to become horrible places to live, and the same is true of the internet.

So yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to give people repeated warnings, then slow or pause their internet until they take basic steps to stop their connection from being used to abuse others.




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