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Perhaps the solution may be to treat domain registrars as common carriers and bar them from taking down customer domains based on anything that's legal in their
by CM30 9y ago
Perhaps the solution may be to treat domain registrars as common carriers and bar them from taking down customer domains based on anything that's legal in their country. Similar thing may need to be done for web hosting, since without web hosting and domain registrations a viable (read, independent with free speech) internet presence can't be established nowadays.
- rsynnott 9y agoIt may not have been legal in the registrar's countries. Based on the screenshot posted in the comments, harassment is often criminal, even if it's over the internet.
- jerkstate 9y agoI've been pointing out that some of the same organizations who have been lobbying for net neutrality as an anti-censorship necessity are leading the charge of censoring reprehensible speech. It seems pretty short-sighted, but luckily for them, the mob tends to have a short memory, so they will probably still be able to cast net neutrality as anti-censorship at the next opportunity, and still exclude themselves from the regulated parties.