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Curious then - if you're okay with this removal, would you be okay with a registrar removing a site because it violated some Catholic values? Supported abortion
by problems 9y ago
Curious then - if you're okay with this removal, would you be okay with a registrar removing a site because it violated some Catholic values? Supported abortion or something say?
There are reasonable restrictions but generally such restrictions have a lot more to do with technical or usability issues rather than civil or political issues. I doubt this will be popular around here, but I'm afraid of being on a registrar that would reject my domain for saying something controversial.
EDIT: I can't even reply to some of the children here because HN is rate limiting me because I disagreed with a majority opinion - even only slightly - and got downvoted. Eugh.
To those saying this is false equivalence or a slippery slope, this is directed towards people saying "they're a private company, they can remove whatever they way" - which it certainly fits the parameters of without modification. No slippery slope here, a slippery slope means this would have to lead to another, which I'm certainly not saying here. Merely a hypothetical that I'm curious how people resolve. I'm not really intending it as a formal argument one way or the other, just wanted to hear different perspectives on it.
- jacquesm 9y ago> would you be okay with a registrar removing a site because it violated some Catholic values? Except, that didn't happen. But if there was a Catholics only registrar (and then, not all Catholics oppose abortion rights) and that website got booted I'm sure that lots of other websites would pack up and leave as well. Somehow I don't think this particular DNS entry not being hosted by Google is going to cost Google any customers.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Curious then - if you're okay with this removal, would you be okay with a registrar removing a site because it violated some Catholic values? I'd fully support it for the ccTLD registrar for the .va domain. Other registrars...depends on details not specified in the hypothetical.
- balls187 9y agoYou are providing false equivalence and arguing by slippery slope.