Noah Shachtman’s Brookings policy paper is chock full of ideas on how to take down the cyberspace baddies. And using the legal system to bring pressure on ISPs seems like a solid idea, until you start thinking about the potential downsides…
First off: Can we agree on what is ‘bad’ behavior?
Second: Do we really know who is being bad?
And there there’s the classic problems of who watches the watchers?
Read the commentary on Wired for more…