Nominet as official police censors
Brian L Johnson
brian at thejohnsons.co.uk
Sun Nov 28 22:57:21 GMT 2010
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brianlj
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Subject: Re: Nominet as official police censors
From: Roland Perry <lists at internetpolicyagency.com>
Date: 28/11/2010 10:10 pm
In article <4CF2993B.6040402 at callnetuk.com>, Peter Mitchell
<otcbn at callnetuk.com> writes
>Notice the assumption that a police request alone is sufficient
>evidence to take down a website. That already seems to be standard
>Nominet practice: from the briefing document "... There are increasing
>expectations from Law Enforcement Agencies that Nominet and its members
>will respond quickly to reasonable requests to suspend domain names
>being used in association with criminal activity and Nominet has been
>working with them in response to formal requests."
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>What an excellent way of enforcing a police officer's personal
>interpretation of (say) the Obscene Publications Act, without having to
>trouble the courts. I look forward to the disappearance of all DH
>Lawrence study sites.
It's currently going to be sites which are associated with a wide range
of scams, but if you think there should be measures to prevent it being
used for back-door content censorship, then now's the time to join in
with Nominet's policy process. It would be reasonably easy to have a
policy where the "criminal activity" was defined by a particular subset
of criminal acts. You could start with fraud, and work from there.
But maybe not this kind of fraud: "Officer! This publication isn't
nearly as obscene as it claims to be. I've been scammed, close them down
immediately".
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Roland Perry
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