Re:Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
by toast0 on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:27PM
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> WHOIS records show the same Florida resident who registered this North Carolina site also registered one for New York — reopenny.com — just a few minutes later."
At this point it is so easy to anonymously set up these websites and protest groups that a bored high-school student can do it.
Instead of putting blame on this or that country, efforts should be focused on creating some kind of a online reputation system so that any content posted would contain a signature that ties it to the author.
The person selling shirts isn't doing it anonymously if whois records reflect that person's ownership of sites targeting different states.
I don't see how a reputation system helps much, if Florida man hits a chord with people, his site is going to have high reputation, regardless of any facts or not. Unless you're suggesting a centralized arbiter of truthiness, but that has myriad problems too.
Unfortunately, I don't think people are going to realize trusting random people until they experience the poor results for themselves. This is a slow process.
At this point it is so easy to anonymously set up these websites and protest groups that a bored high-school student can do it.
Instead of putting blame on this or that country, efforts should be focused on creating some kind of a online reputation system so that any content posted would contain a signature that ties it to the author.
The person selling shirts isn't doing it anonymously if whois records reflect that person's ownership of sites targeting different states.
I don't see how a reputation system helps much, if Florida man hits a chord with people, his site is going to have high reputation, regardless of any facts or not. Unless you're suggesting a centralized arbiter of truthiness, but that has myriad problems too.
Unfortunately, I don't think people are going to realize trusting random people until they experience the poor results for themselves. This is a slow process.