[Chapter-delegates] The Internet Society on the Wikileaks issue

[Fred Baker]

On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:

> The issue of domain seizures is also being discussed in the UK at the instigation of SOCA (Serious and Organised Crime Agency)

I doubt that philosophical discussions with people bent on doing idiotic things like this will be very helpful. They tend to lump people into one of two sets: those that help them achieve their goals and those who don't. Like the Internet, they tend to roll their eyes and route around people they deem failures.

You might, however, point them too http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120804038.html. Some people have to learn for themselves, and reading the usual outcome of such cases might at least give them the opportunity to make the mistake in a different way.

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