... and coretx's "nobody wants to peer with an idiot" is clearly not working here. These networks are still being peered with.
Maybe the regulators should start by regulating only international peering.
The idea to regulate only international peering looks best so far. It's much like (m)any other regulations that are only present on the border between countries, and are absent inside.
The concepts of "national" and "international" don't map very well to the internet.
Many companies run multiple ASes, and many companies are peering at IXPs all over the world...
With China specifically it could work, because they internally control their points of peering with the rest of the world. With Russia, less so. With a "normal" Western country, likely infeasible, but in the latter case the internet access is not controlled and weaponized by the government, so there is no real need, self-regulation suffices.
Government is a “multi stakeholder” model. Whether that or private you get a committee determining based upon the biases of the committee.
Same old human bullshit all the way down no matter the semantic bullshit that annotates how the technical decision was made.
[0] corporations being legally people.
If I have the underlying context right here, this is effectively regulation prohibiting people from lying in the course of their normal operations, which smells a lot like a typical fraud statute, and government restrictions on fraud-like things have almost always been upheld as constitutional. (The main exception I'm aware of is US v Alvarez, but even there, SCOTUS said it was only a problem to ban lying for lying's sake; banning lying with the purpose of getting a benefit is acceptable).