[At-Large] [ALAC] Fwd: A million domains taken down by email checks

[Lance Hinds]

Thought I should share.

Last Monday I registered a domain and purchased some web space from one of
larger internet providers. On Tuesday I got an email saying that as part of
their verification exercise they want a scanned copy of one of my IDs and
also a scanned copy of my credit card. Clearly I didn't do it fast enough
for their liking because by Thursday my account was suspended. no second
email/warning etc. I raised all kinda hell but...

I am beginning to resign myself to the reality that access to the internet
at a certain level is a privilege...not a right.


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...Hmmmmmm. I would say they are binary and always yoked, even if uneasily
> so!  One long-time jurist had a pithy response in one instance; freedom of
> speech has an attached responsibility of not "falsely shouting fire in a
> crowded theatre".
>
> Here's another of my favourites. I'm for freedom of religion, so long as
> you're responsible enough not to insist I must bend a knee to your damned
> foolish one.
>
> I could go on.....but the 'right' to a domain name instituted in a commons
> surely does have responsibilities!  At least, in the public interest.
>
> -Carlton
>
>
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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 04-Jul-14 10:42, Carlton Samuels wrote:
> > > Rights and responsibilities must be in balance.
> >
> > I know where the fundamental rights are defined.
> > I do not know where the fundamental responsibilities are defined.
> > The only responsibilities I know of are the ones the States have taken
> > on to defend people's rights.
> >
> > People are forever coming up responsibilities with which to counter
> > rights, but they have never shown how these responsibilities were agreed
> > upon or made binding.
> >
> > What I do see is a need to balance rights, they are the foundation we
> > need to build on.
> >
> > avri
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