CDR: Re: Ken Stubbs @ core deletes vote-auction.com
!Dr. Joe Baptista
baptista at pccf.net
Fri Nov 3 05:54:52 PST 2000
our ol friend Ken is up to no good again.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Tom Vogt wrote:
>
> it seems that core (i.e. the root servers) has deleted the entry for
> vote-auction.com - while the whois still works and their primary
> nameserver (in austria) still resolves, a regular lookup returns with
> "host unknown".
>
> rumour has it that core carved in to demand by most possibly the feds.
> here in europe the sentiment today is that by doing so core has stopped
> being (if it ever was) an independent and purely technical instance and
> has entered the realm of politics. for example, no matter whether or not
> vote-auction.com is or is not illegal in the US, what business has a US
> court or lea in blocking the site for *me* (in germany) or, for that
> matter, the rest of the planet?
>
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