Reply #32: Well, they do actually own the networks

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Private property is not something to blow off on a whim. The assurance of protection for private property is a large part of the reason why these networks exist at all. Who would make the massive investment in building one if someone else could come in and tell you how to run it?

I drive my car based on my own best interests. Should it be up to the government when and how I should drive it?

If the networks were publicly owned, that would be a different story.

By the way, the blocking of spammers and hackers, where it is done (and trust me, it isn't done except by private individuals protecting themselves - put up a server on an unfiltered network, wait a week, and go read the network log if you want to see for yourself) is one of those things that would be made illegal by net neutrality. Hell's bells, if I read the doctrine correctly, even spam filtering, if done on the network level, would be made illegal. (This is one of the problems with political activists thinking they can make decisions best left to engineers.)

With regards to my own configuration, I get paid to reveal the secrets of how I do what I do :evilgrin: I know it's completely ineffective - but it would be effective if the FBI/McCain were doing its/his job. It's more of a "if you're going to ignore the problem I'm going to make it your problem, then maybe you'll take the actions you should have been taking already" tactic than an actual expectation of a solution.