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Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy

partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I like the end result that ISPs are pushing back on this, but don’t mistake this for altruism on their part.

Their businesses make money selling internet service. Were they to support cutting off those accused of piracy, they would be losing paying customers. Further, the business processes and support needed for this to function would be massively expensive and complicated. They’d have to hired teams of people and write whole new software applications for maintaining databases of banned users, customer service staff to address and resolve disputes, and so much more.

Lastly, as soon as all of that process would be in place to ban users for piracy accusations, then the next requests would come in for ban criteria in a classic slippery slope:

pornography
discussions of drugs
discussions of politics the party in power doesn’t like
speaking out against the state
communication about assembling
discussion on how to emigrate

All the machinery would be in place once the very first ban is approved.

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418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Plus, you aren’t disconnecting a person, but a whole family or business.

And since many areas in the US only have one provider, you force that family to cancel all streaming services they might have. It’s a lose-lose-lose situation.

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- wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I think a big problem we don’t want to address is now that we’re so interconnected, internet access is a necessity that should be classified as a utility. You can’t just cut off someone’s electricity without notification or process because they did something bad with it and it should apply here too
  
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  - 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Absolutely
    
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BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think it is also the user they disconnect for piracy tend to pay more. They tend to be more premium customers also why should they enforce what happens on their lines. It is an illegal search and seizure. Let the government get a warrant prove something is illegal then the ISP can disconnect them.

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- Graphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah who else is going to pay for 1GB speeds knowing the most they’ll ever get is 400MB
  
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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I agree with all this, but I think it is all to say: ISPs support Net Neutrality when it behooves them.

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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah but that’s capitalism in a nutshell, isn’t it?
  
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