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Re: The terrible, no good, rotten, horrible, really bad Web site list ( YES YES djf)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:41:40 -0700
________________________________________ From: Tom Fairlie [tfairlie () frontiernet net] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:55 PM To: David Farber Cc: Brock N. Meeks; karl () cavebear com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The terrible, no good, rotten, horrible, really bad Web site list ( YES YES djf) One should always be wary when one of the four horses of the Internet apocalypse are trotted out (i.e., child porn, terrorism, drug trafficking, and any sort of generic, mob-related crime such as money laundering). Policies related to these memes aren't merely the remnants of a failed strategy or lazy legislation; they are frequently used to hide even more nefarious activities that the private (and often, governmental) entities really want passed. As always, follow the money (or see what's being hidden), and you will find out why so many people want to shut the Internet down, regulate it, or otherwise put it under strict control and close scrutiny. A free, public vehicle for communication is anathema to the goals of the people ultimately behind these policies. Lazy, ignorant politicians are just useful idiots. Tom Fairlie PS, like Brock, I have children, and the last thing I want to see is a terrible crime that directly affects them. However, expecting our government to effectively resolve any of these issues with its current trajectory is probably less useful than simple prayer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net> To: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:45 PM Subject: [IP] Re: The terrible, no good, rotten, horrible, really bad Web site list ( YES YES djf) ________________________________________ From: Karl Auerbach [karl () cavebear com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:22 PM To: David Farber Cc: bmeeks () cox net Subject: Re: [IP] The terrible, no good, rotten, horrible, really bad Web site list ( YES YES djf) David Farber wrote:
________________________________________ From: Brock N Meeks [bmeeks () cox net]
First, I want to know who anointed the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as judge and jury of what constitutes a child porn Web site?
Welcome to the 21st Century world of private governance - plenary power in private hands: No oversight, no review, and often exempt from taxes and anti-trust laws. It is a natural step from the Reagan/Thatcher belief that the powers of government are best exercised without public oversight by private actors. This National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is one example, Blackwater is another. One of the reasons that I rail so much about ICANN is that it is also one of these things that have power of government exercised via a private body. The big fights in western Europe and N. America of the latter 18th and early 19th centuries were concerned with redressing and constraining outrageous abuses of national power - one of the most extreme examples being the France of Louis XIV. Unfortunately we are not advancing. Instead we are going retrograde. We are abandoning the idea bodies of limited government exercising limited powers that are derived from the citizenry. We seem to be moving back to an era more suggestive of feudal powers vested in corporate dukes and NGO nobles. We are in an era in which power is being concentrated rather than diffused. And that concentration is occurring with the greatest rapidity into bodies that are the least accountable to the public. And this acceptance of concentration is slopping over into other areas. For instance it really bothers me that not one of the US Presidential candidates as repudiated Pres. Bush's "unitary executive" grab for neo-royal power. --karl-- ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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