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Re: The Whack-A-Mole Method of Ending Hate In Our Time
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:18:42 -0700
Dave and I agree djf ________________________________________ From: David P. Reed [dpreed () reed com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:07 AM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Re: [IP] The Whack-A-Mole Method of Ending Hate In Our Time May I suggest that corporations don't have inherent "rights"? Corporations are created by a process under law that creates an entity that has a finite set of explicit rights, along with a requirement that they fulfill a set of explicit *responsibilities* in return. Anthropomorphizing corporations such as "registrars" does not help resolve controversy. It just adds irrelevant miscommunications to a melee. The cited "right" of a corporation to decide with whom it chooses to do business is not a true "right". And corporations are not "free" entities - they are inherently bound by the rules under which they are constructed (be that in the State of Delaware or under King George [he of the infamous tax on tea]). All *men* are endowed with certain inalienable rights. Corporations are not. David Farber wrote:
________________________________________ From: John Berryhill [john () johnberryhill com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:11 AM To: David Farber Subject: The Whack-A-Mole Method of Ending Hate In Our Time Clearly whatever it is that Dutch politician Geert Wilders wants to talk about in his film is going to be the end of the internet. The news that Network Solutions decided to pre-empt his use of a domain name registered through them for the purpose of promoting his film need not be re-hashed here. However, before bemoaning yet another registrar freely deciding, as is its right, with whom it chooses to do business, it's important to look at the big picture. No, it is not "censorship" for Network Solutions to decide how it wants its services to be used. There are a number of internet registrars all over the world, and as recently demonstrated with Enom having been notified by the US State Department that, yes, the OFAC SDN list means something, one might do well to select one's registrar based in part on an understanding of the legal climate where that registrar is located. But, perhaps we might understand Network Solutions policy more clearly by looking at domain names registered through NSI which freely promote killing Muslims rather than merely making films about them. Take for example the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, affectionately the Tamil Tigers - a nearly universally recognized terrorist group perhaps best known for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, but which has engaged in far more numerous outright massacres in predominately Muslim areas of Sri Lanka. The Tamil Tigers maintain at least two, if not more, domain names through Network Solutions - eelam.com and eelamweb.com. Here, one can learn the answers to all of your frequently asked questions about ethnic cleansing such as at: http://www.eelamweb.com/faq/ which states "Muslims have been asked to leave the Tamil Eelam territory until the independence of Tamil Eelam." This polite request is normally made at gunpoint during operations of the Tamil Tigers. So, the takeaway from these two actions of Network Solutions: (1) prohibiting an NSI domain name to be used to promote an anti-Muslim film, and (2) permitting two NSI domain names to be used to promote the mass eviction and murder of Muslims in Sri Lanka; indicates that one needs to apply a balanced perspective of how NSI would like its domain name services to be used, before making rash judgments of alleged "bias". If the continued operation of eelam.com and eelamweb.com is any indication, NSI's view would appear to be that Mr. Wilders just isn't going far enough. Next up, the Islamic Army of Iraq, and their Louisiana brigade, courtesy of iaisite.info, registered through Directnic. John Berryhill, Ph.d., Esq. 4 West Front St. Media, PA 19063 (610) 565-5601 (267) 386-8115 fax ------------------------------------------- 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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