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The problem seems to be (for lack of better information) that sites are shut down pre-emptively with no warning. I'm all for prosecuting child pornographers, a
by dedward 16y ago
The problem seems to be (for lack of better information) that sites are shut down pre-emptively with no warning.
I'm all for prosecuting child pornographers, and shutting down their content as quickly as possible - but that should be possible by a court order against the hosting provider.... or if said provider is unreachable / out of jurisdiction, and has STILL had some reasonable attempt at contact to press charges, then sure, go after the domain - but there needs to be some due process behind things rather than just having the federal authorities and DNS layer just whomping things down with little to no oversight.
- marshray 16y agoWell that's just the thing - if someone is unambiguously a child pornographer - throw their ass in jail! WTF are they doing screwing around with DNS registrations in cases where they know that is taking place? It sure seems to me like some adversarial government entity simply found a knob they can turn to screw with people when they don't actually have the standard of evidence required for a prosecution.
- Bossman 16y ago> The problem seems to be (for lack of better information) that sites are shut down pre-emptively with no warning. Well, you can thank the Patriot Act for that. It allows them to go after people without telling them until it happens.