Re: [ga] Re: Potential Danger Ahead for Registrants -- dot-info Abusive Domain Use Policy

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George and all,

  Good point and nicely attributed as well.  Now if only ICANN
could get the hint, eh?!

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> To elaborate on "due process." There's a famous award-winning film, "A
> Man for All Seasons" from the 1960s, based on the play, that had a
> memorable scene:
>
> ---- start quote --------
> "William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
>
> Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the
> law to get after the Devil?
>
> William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
>
> Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil
> turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being
> flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast,
> Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the
> man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds
> that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my
> own safety's sake!"
> ------ end of quote --------
>
> "For my own safety's sake" what is the protective language in the
> Afilias policy? In the rush to label some domains as "abusive" in the
> name of "security," due process is eliminated. Even the Devil (real
> abusers, spammers, etc.) deserves the benefit of law (and due process),
> in order to protect everyone else from the anarachy that would result
> without laws and due process.
>
> "Where would you hide" (what language in the contract do you rely
> upon), when "the Devil turned 'round on you?" (when the registry
> operator summarily finds your domain to be "abusive" in its own
> discretion, its own definition of "abuse" and cancels it)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/

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