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Re: [opennic-discuss] Vote to keep or drop peering with NameCoin


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  • From: "Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>
  • To: "discuss" <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Vote to keep or drop peering with NameCoin
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:29:42 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

Just a question about the malware and child pornography thing - aren't server
owners protected by Section 230 and safe harbor laws?

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-Dan Q

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:47:20 -0600, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> In addition to the points I recently brought up about NameCoin, Fusl
> also discovered the following article where it appears one of their own
> developers criticizes OpeNIC directly for making their .bit domains
> available to our users, however nobody from their group have ever
> contacted us to say there were any problems with our implementation or
> even ask us to stop peering with them.
>
> https://namecoin.org/2018/09/24/how-centralized-inproxies-make-everyone-less-safe-case-study.html
>
> The previous discussion on this topic was short-lived, but seemed to
> produce little in the way of support or dissent for .bit domains,
> possibly meaning that there is simply very little interest in .bit overall.
>
> At this time I would like to call for a vote on whether we should keep
> peering with NameCoin or drop all support. The vote can be found here:
> https://wiki.opennic.org/votings/drop_namecoin
>
> Due to the low volume of chat and emails at this time of year, I have
> set the vote for a two-week period, ending on June 25th. Hopefully that
> will give everyone interested a chance to weigh in. For those not
> familiar with the voting page, please use your OpenNIC user account
> credentials (the same one you use on the servers page or to sign in to
> be.libre) to log in to the wiki in order to cast your vote. Select if
> you want to keep or drop .bit, then click the grey "Your Vote" button.
>
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