Here is Dan Solove writing about the ridiculous cost of this surveillance program. And here is civil libertarian hero Dan Gilmore: The NYT covered this story, on the front page, too. But somehow it was all about “Colleges Protest Call…

However your closing statement (”saddling such a large financial burden on educational institutions at a time of rapidly rising education costs”) suggests your objection is really an agenda to exempt “Universities”, and begs questions such as; When were “educational institutions not at a time of rapidly rising education costs”? How much governmental subsidies do “educational institutions” beg for and receive? Is this also a time of rapidly rising education subsidies?

Better to hold to the more general argument than to cite “educational institutions” who I dare say enjoy more political influence than the ISP industry!!!