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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

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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