Except that it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a large system to be monitored 100%. The phone company can't listen in on all the calls made to make sure none of them are illegal or harassment, and an ISP can't possibly know 100% of what users are doing. If you have more than two users, you've already lost control. I used to work at a medium sized ISP and we had to deal with this nonsense all the time. When we got a complaint, we'd look into it, and we were known to remove accounts or remove images or other such matters, but honestly, there was and is no way to know what 100% of users are doing 100% of the time. I'm not sure what part of "it can't be done" eludes the people who want to make laws holding ISPs responsible for what users post. Why not also hold all the hops in the route (i.e., other systems through with a message passes) responsible, as well? It's only slightly less ridiculous. bonni

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