• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If you ask me (and nobody ever does for good reason), one of the only times an ISP should be pulling the plug on online speech is when you start linking actual malicious links that have a good chance of your grandma losing her retirement funds or your tech illiterate uncle getting a crypto miner installed on his laptop or something equally destructive.

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      1 year ago

      Your ISP should have no insight in to your traffic at all. Therefore unable to make any judgement on what traffic to block and what not to block. With the exception of volume of traffic and to where it is going.

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        I remember getting a warning years ago from an ISP I don’t use anymore that my service would be cut off if I downloaded a pirate torrent again. Why the fuck were they paying attention to what I was doing? Even if it was piracy, it was none of their fucking business and they wouldn’t be implicated. I’ve used a VPN ever since.

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          1 year ago

          You’re ISP didn’t care. The production companies are the ones finding out your IP address. Your ISP is just passing the message along.

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        1 year ago

        Although I do agree they should have no insight, I’d rather the insight they currently have be used to actually block sites from bad actors than just spying on you to most likely sell your data.

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      I don’t know why people are disagreeing with you.

      This is like someone setting up a fake stop on a public road to mug people.

      You’re telling me that the state shouldn’t have the right to police the road to prevent that from happening?

      Lemmy.people, are you high?