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.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
