Noting this article skips over any discussion about why, or potentially (in the eyes of the law at least) legitimate reason an ISP might do this.
Many ISPs in many countries are forced to do this for certain enforcement action that gets put upon them by their respective states for things such as age gating, censorship, monitoring, it varies state by state.
And to be clear this is in no way an endorsement of the practice, and I am confident no ISP WANTS to do this.
I am speaking here as the owner of a UK ISP (who does not currently do this).
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Why do you assume the others have same ethical compass as you? I hope everyone has the same compass but we have seen again and again trust being broken.
ISPs talk to each other, and people move jobs between them. It's not a uniform community but you certainly get a sense of the general spread of opinions after a while.
There are of course outliers but most people I know in the field care as much about personal rights & freedom as anyone else. Maybe even a small bit more.
This is a complete non sequitur