Time to Exclude Bad ISPs

Time to Exclude Bad ISPs
Oliver Day, 2008-12-09

In recent months, three questionable Internet service providers — EstDomains, Atrivo, and McColo — were effectively taken offline resulting in noticeable drops of malware and spam.

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Time to Exclude Bad ISPs 2008-12-09
Alex (1 replies)

Honestly I think that your idea of collaboration is a little flawed. We should never let governments represent the people in this case. Everyone has their own understanding of the value and legitimacy of the internet and any activities pertaining to it. I think that ISPs should choose themselves whe...

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Re: Time to Exclude Bad ISPs 2008-12-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

Agreed. I don't think that I want someone else deciding who should be allowed to connect to my ISP, other than my ISP of course. Excluding people because you don't care for their business practices is a slippery slope....

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Re: Re: Time to Exclude Bad ISPs 2009-01-02
Professor Pooky

I just spend $60 clearing a virus off my PC. I've had to do that about every other year forever. If someone doesn't put a stop to Internet activity that harms everyday users we run the risk of a Wild West syndrome. Essentially, the Internet will become so wild with abuse as to become useless for ...

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Time to Exclude Bad ISPs 2008-12-11
Anonymous

At least in the United States, ISPs are NOT protected as Common Carriers, nor are they required to carry the traffic of the net's bad seeds. It would be a crucial step backward if they were.

The power of any group, be it government, cooperative, or industry-specific, will be drawn from its abi...

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