How to Handle ISPs Who Turn a Blind Eye to Criminal Activity?

Gadi Evron ge at linuxbox.org
Fri Oct 12 22:07:06 UTC 2007


On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> Gadi,
>
> Gadi Evron wrote:
>
>> The time soon approaches when we need to clean house if we are to "clean
>> the net". I suppose we may as well start with the lower-hanging fruit
>> because the very idea of cleaning the net is propostrous.
>>
>> There is no reason to gun for businesses, but if the businesses are in
>> fact criminal (which is surprisingly easily defined, think RBN), and
>> cause that much trouble, we can gun for them and feel good about it, too.
>
> Advocating vigilantism is simply not a very wise position to take.
>
> Taking the the power to determine what is and is not criminal onto
> yourself is in fact illegal in most places.
>

I quite agree!



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