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by walrus01 10 days ago
No residential last mile broadband ISP at the scale of hundreds of thousands or millions of customers is presently willing to spend the salary/benefits/fully loaded employee cost on the massive teams of (somewhat technically clued in, not low wage) people it would take to effectively implement this.
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They would be willing if they were themselves held liable for the illicit activity originating from their network otherwise.
except we need ISPs to be treated as relatively neutral parties. we don't hold the water company liable if someone uses water to cook up meth