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The starting point to the freedom of speech on the internet requires an answer to the question, does a private owner of internet gateway have the responsibility to ensure illegal acts do not take place on their equipment? Not to say the private owner must stop all illegal acts, but must the owner make an effort to try to stop illegal acts and to assist law enforcement to a reasonable extent?

A moral citizen/owner of the gateway will try to prevent heinous crimes even if the legal obligation is not there, but if the system is designed to be unable to record what is sent from whom then policing by the private owner is impossible. So should the ISP design the system to track and record, just in case, or design the system to make tracking and recording impossible until a legal wiretap for a specific target is issued. But that leads to the question how does LE find their targets without the help from the ISP?

It appears today ISP typically have a recorded physical address for every IP at every point in time, and keep records for long periods of time. I encourage you to use Tor to safeguard your privacy

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R 1y ago

A private owner does not have a responsibility to ensure illegal acts do not take place.

Government has a responsibility to punish the actual criminals with a severity that discourages criminals rather than taking the easy way out of blaming some unwilling participant who is easy to find and prosecute.

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modulo 1y ago

I agree with you and especially on the point law enforcement should do the ground/detective work to find perpetrators and not cast the net so wide as to ensnare and breach the privacy of innocent actors, but here is the rub—without the ISP tracking everyone’s IP from the physical address to the sites visited at all points in time, the ISP becomes an information black hole and no connections can be made. Additionally, if the ISP creates the impossibility to connect physical addresses to illegal activities, it invites more malicious actors to that ISP.

Perhaps that is the answer, which somewhat exists today: Each private entity (#ISP, #telegram, #freesamourai) decides for itself and should never be a target, and law enforcement identify the conduits that act as black holes and do the necessary work to find perpetrators that access these black-hole-ISP connections

Trouble is government has taken the step too far to persecute the service providers for the bad actions of a few, if any. And due to diverse regulatory regimes what may be good practice in one country breaches the rules in #france.

I appreciate your comments and thanks for the response.