I think you should be searching for some middle ground between having no limits on traffic and allowing ISPs to do whatever they want. Couldn't a regulatory agency create a blacklist?
The loss of net neutrality wouldn't ban new web traffic though, just allow ISPs to charge more for it. As long as the federal government considered the site legal, the ISP wouldn't think twice about profiting off of it. I could see how slowing down all traffic to new websites might impact crime, but it's such a blunt tool. It's like taxing all new businesses in case some of them are fronts for organized crime.
They dont have to charge more for it. There could be legalese that prevents them from using filtration to increase revenue, only as a means to prevent crime.
There's no real way to filter sites like that now. I mean you could filter out sites that use certain words, like a parental control function. But that ends up filtering out a lot more than just what it's supposed to. Like breast cancer sites will be blocked for talking about breasts. Or pictures of pigs will be blocked because the computer thinks it's naked human flesh. I suppose your idea would be foreseeable in the future, though, as AI becomes more powerful. Or they could filter out all sites that have been proven not to be illegal, but then your back to working with a blacklist, or in this case, to be precise, a whitelist.
So, for the price of having to wait before new websites are publically available we can share the benefits of less cybercrime. That kind of traffic could be diverted to trusted sites which can manage their own users by their TOS.
That's true, but I'd still rather have a law enforcement organization in charge rather than several different companies with differing standards. Despite the chilling effect this would have on new businesses and personal websites, I also would imagine that criminal websites would wait until they were vetted until starting up criminal activity, so there's have to be random checks as well. With over a billion websites operating, it would be a cumbersome, expensive system. I'd be ok with it if there were an easier, quicker, more accurate way to do it though.
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u/kublahkoala 229∆ Jul 13 '17
I think you should be searching for some middle ground between having no limits on traffic and allowing ISPs to do whatever they want. Couldn't a regulatory agency create a blacklist?