On 09/13/2017 02:30 PM, jim bell wrote:
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 10:50:40 AM PDT, Marina Brown <catskillmarina@gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/13/2017 07:04 AM, John Young wrote:
The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-stormer-charlott...
Terrifying!
I have a feeling that Internet Registrars and Cloudflare are doing this for their own legal protection.
I have a feeling that you are inventing reasoning that would be, in itself, illogical and quite stilted. Sure, deluded people exist, but organizations who are in control of such things have a responsibility to not abuse their authority.
Yes - i am only speculating, but there are lawyers out there who have brought up the possible charge. I spoke with one of them recently.
It's long established law that conspiracy to commit genocide, ethnic cleansing and to violate the human rights of groups of people is a crime. Creating the theoretical framework for genocide is also a crime as was evidenced by the conviction of Julius Streicher who authored Daily Stormer's predescessor Der Sturmer.
It's Cloudflare and Registrars protecting themselves from being complicit in human rights crimes.
And you know what. I don't blame them. I wouldn't piss on Andrew Anglin if he was on fire.
Sorry, but you are not even hundreds of miles away from being correct on this. To label DNS service, which is essentially monopoly, as supporting "genocide" is about 3-4 leaps of logic, far too much to work. A few nuts spouting nonsense is far, very far, from "conspiracy to commit genocide". Merely providing necessary net services to them, just as is done for thousands of sites, cannot possibly be described that way. Maybe you just have no respect for the concept of "Free Speech".
Jim Bell
I am concerned about the market monopoly of DNS service ...but
This is not about speech. It is about people conspiring to commit genocide, ethnic cleansing and to remove peoples human rights. I am quoting law used in Neuremburg. ...The same law that was used to convict Julius Streicher. You cannot simultaneously enguage in free speech and a conspiracy to commit genocide. One is permitted, one is a crime. ...Unless you want to redefine free speech to include criminal conspiracy. We can oppose monopolies like DNS TLD without defending conspiracy to commit genocide.