Comment by mschuster91

> While a cute story, how do you scale that? And what about all the users that would be incapable of troubleshooting it, like if their laptop, roku, or smart lightbulb were compromised? They just lose internet?

Uh, yes. Exactly and plainly that. We also go and suspend people's driver licenses or at the very least seriously fine them if they misbehave on the road, including driving around with unsafe cars.

Access to the Internet should be a privilege, not a right. Maybe the resulting anger from widespread crackdowns would be enough of a push for legislators to demand better security from device vendors.

> And what about a botnet that doesn’t saturate your connection, how does your ISP even know?

In ye olde days providers had (to have to) abuse@ mailboxes. Credible evidence of malicious behavior reported to these did lead to customers getting told to clean up shop or else.