In message <2b9e675.bf1cb7ec.1633084c1d3@gmx.ch>, Tobi <jahlives@gmx.ch> wrote:
my point is: its not a black/white decission. There is a guaranteed right for everyone on his/her privacy. Thats given by the declaration of human rights and is adopted into national laws and constitutents. On the other hand there is a right for you to find out who messes with your network ressources (for example by whois). So which right weights heavier?
The two principals you have elaborated are -not- conflicting. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not guarrantee to the individual the right to keep and bear domain names or to keep and bear IP address blocks or to keep and bear an automobile. Societies world-wide, up until the last year or two at least, demanded that anyone who requested the -privilege- (not right) of owning and using any one of these things... automobiles, domain names, IP address blocks... should have to -voluntarily- give up some small bit of their right to privacy IN EXCHANGE for being granted the -priviledge- of owning one of these things. In exchange for being granted the priviledge, they had to register and make their identities known, so that they could be held accountable for their possible misuse of any of these things. (This is one kind of "social contract" that has existed from time immemorial.) Societies world-wide did this, not just for fun, or because they had corrupt rulers who wanted to spy on everyone, but because it was recognized early on that in fact these things... automobiles, domain names, IP address blocks... quite often *are* misused. But now we have a new generation of idiots coming online... the "entitlement" generation who believe that they owe society nothing and that society owes them everything. And now they wish to upend and destroy the longstanding social bargains that have existed already for generations. They claim, as if it was their God-given right, the "right" to own and drive the Internet equivalent of an automobile -without- having to fulfill -their- part of the bargain... without having to register and make their identities known, for accountability purposes. The root of this insanity lies in one singular provably false modern notion, i.e. that the society we call "the Internet" somehow owes each and every person on this planet the "right" to a domain name or to an IP address block, without getting anything at all in return, or more specifically, without getting anything in the way of even minimal accountability in return. The day when the ownership of a domain name or an IP address changed... quietly and without even any public debate.,.. from a priviledge to a fundamental human right was the day the lunatics took over the asylum. Regards, rfg