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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 wpietri on Sunday June 28, 2015 @11:21AM (#9793820)
I agree, but the flipside for me is the various shitheels who use domain privacy to avoid accountability for bad behavior. Spammers, squatters, criminals, network abusers.

Is there some sort of middle ground where somebody like Amnesty International is one of the domain privacy providers? And another is, say, the Society of Professional Journalists? I would totally trust well-established organizations like that to make reasonable decisions about when to keep information private.

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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by ploxiln on Sunday June 28, 2015 @11:39AM (#9793891)
You're going to have to get used to equality between people you do like and people you don't like, if you want people you do like to have rights and privacy.
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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by wpietri on Sunday June 28, 2015 @10:16PM (#9796086)
That's a bold claim. But a) criminality and abuse go beyond "things wpietri does't like". And b), you haven't supported the claim, so I suspect it's bold and wrong.
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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by eli on Sunday June 28, 2015 @11:36AM (#9793874)
But wouldn't spammers and scammers simply use bogus WHOIS information anyway?
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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by takeda on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:46PM (#9794788)
Yep, it's not like they care about having the domain a year later after they already used it for spam and it is banned everywhere.
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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by AnthonyMouse on Sunday June 28, 2015 @05:34PM (#9795201)
Not only that, by the time the authorities catch up to the lawbreakers they'll have seized the domain regardless of whether it has accurate whois data. You can't threaten wrongdoers with something they're already subject to. The penalty is only a penalty to innocent people.
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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by wpietri on Sunday June 28, 2015 @10:19PM (#9796092)
Depends on the spammers and the scammers, and the strictness of the verification policy. It's relatively easy to verify physical addresses and phone numbers, and quite a number of criminals are not particularly sharp.

No measure eliminates crime, but some do reduce it.

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