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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
It's a spin on the old "Why are you opposed to the government doing XYZ by invading your privacy if you have nothing to hide?" argument. It's the conflation of two issues in order to avoid addressing the main point. You can focus on the errant child and the apathetic parent, but that is no excuse to not address the issue of the lumping together of the guilty and the innocent.
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Or a spin on the 'Throw my child in jail just don't cut of my internet'. If it is your service you are reponsible for the bills and infractions. If it isn't perhaps you should get your own internet service and allow no one else to use it.
While not saying it is right or wrong the government regularly invades my privacy just by requiring me to file tax returns. Search warrents are an invasion of privacy on a far more intrusive level but seem to be deemed necessary by society to discourage crime. Credit card companies checking on suspected identity theft is also an invasion of my privacy as they are using information collected from my credit card usage to determine this.
I do not see a way to totally preserve my privacy without moving to a cabin in the woods, using cash only which I could only earn in illegitame ways and and eating my own home grown or trapped food.
Bottom line is no-one is punishing you unless it is your service and you are allowing it to be abused. If it is not your service then you are not being punished. You might consider it collateral damage but even that is stretching it.
Helen