I'm curious, does classifying the Internet as an utility make it easier or harder for the government to spy on it?
On one hand it should be easier since they'd have much more control over it, on the other, it's already pretty damn easy to get all the ISP data through a firehose directly to NSA's data-centers. Plus, there's the Post Office, which actually has much more privacy protections than the Internet right now. So I guess it's still totally dependent on the laws we make, and whether we let them spy on it or not?
On one hand it should be easier since they'd have much more control over it, on the other, it's already pretty damn easy to get all the ISP data through a firehose directly to NSA's data-centers. Plus, there's the Post Office, which actually has much more privacy protections than the Internet right now. So I guess it's still totally dependent on the laws we make, and whether we let them spy on it or not?