On 9/27/16 11:18 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
On 9/27/16 10:05 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote:
I point to the current trend of parents watching and smiling, doing nothing as their kids destroy people's stores and restaurants. ISPs are literally doing the exact same thing when it comes to coddling their customers.
They can *see* the unruly children, but *choose* to ignore them. That's the difference.
I call shenanigans on providers not seeing their unruly users. They have no problems with bandwidth caps, or doing the dirty work of copyright police, both of which require some level of network monitoring per customer.
Or even better example - the providers who monetize customer browsing/shopping habits using third party network device? Or SiteFinder like services with their DNS? Providers have no problems monitoring, intercepting, mangling. I know people here will say, "Well, I'm not like that/don't believe in that!", but we're not talking about technical decisions - but decisions made by people who's job is to squeeze as much profit out of the customers as possible. There is no financial incentive or penalty for preventing/limiting your customers from harming others. If there was, I don't think we'd be having this discussion. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org