[At-Large] [lac-discuss-en] Vistaprint is abandoning .vista
bzs at theworld.com
bzs at theworld.com
Sun Jul 15 18:37:32 UTC 2018
On July 14, 2018 at 20:01 6.internet at gmail.com (sivasubramanian muthusamy) wrote:
> Your question "who defines..." reverberates questions such as "who defines what
> is good", and "who defines what is harmful and what is not". These are good
> questions, but often used to divert the very suggestion of doing good. The
> complexities in defining a notion shouldn't deter us from chosing an
> appropriate path.
A very big problem is "least common denominator".
By which I mean any global organization is likely to descend into
policies which, depending on the specific approval process, will yield
a majority or even an absence of any objections.
Purely as an example to ponder let me offer:
Man jailed for 35 years in Thailand for insulting monarchy on Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/09/man-jailed-for-35-years-in-thailand-for-insulting-monarchy-on-facebook
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