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A comment on ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy. Parent comment

Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by marincounty on Sunday June 28, 2015 @06:54AM (#9793078)
"The more laws, the less justice" Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

Bill O'Reilly (He couldn't be the first one to coin this?)

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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by mahouse on Sunday June 28, 2015 @07:03AM (#9793091)
Interesting you mention those quotes, taking into account this problem is due to the government externalising some critical infrastructure.
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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by icebraining on Sunday June 28, 2015 @07:42AM (#9793149)
I think this is a naive view of the situation. The authority still belongs to the US Department of Commerce -ICANN just has a contract, which incidentally expires this year- and multiple governmental organizations have publicly argued that fake WHOIS records impede their regular activities.

The apparent externalization is great for shifting blame, though.

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