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by acedTrex 979 days ago
It is not an ISPs job to analyze traffic patterns and attempt to stop the bad ones. Thats like saying its the job of the road crews to stop speeders
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So who else? My proposal would be to have companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and hosting providers be able to report sources of DDoS attack to the ISPs who can then identify the customer and let the customer know that they have a week to fix the issue or lose connectivity.
That is terrifying.

Let Google, Amazon, and Apple decide who gets to use the internet and who gets put into a list.

That is way worse than giving Google the W3C. That is literally just handing them the internet and making everybody else on it subservient to Google.

Or that it's the ISP's job to cut off accounts that are downloading copyrighted works, or hashing cryptocurrency without paying taxes, etc.

It would be nice if the cell phone provider could send a text message reporting the problem. But how to distinguish it from spam?