[Chapter-delegates] Seeking Views: DNS Filtering

[Rudi Vansnick]

Fully agree with Patrick. And as the sample proves the USA is imposing it's law all over the world.

Stricto senso the domain/website should  be accessible in Europe as there is no law in Europe blocking this domain.

Rudi Vansnick
President - CEO ISOC Belgium


Op 3-sep-2011 35, om 21:07 heeft Patrick Vande Walle het volgende geschreven:

> Hello Sally,
> 
> This is a very good document. 
> 
> It may be worth mentioning Rojadirecta.org, which was (and still is) a perfectly legal operation in Spain but was nevertheless taken down by ISOC's subsidiary PIR, at the request of ICE. 
> 
> There are two consequences:  
> 
> - this places registry operators in an awkward position of having to violate the law of country X in order to comply with the law of country Y. 
> - although this censorship should be limited to the territory where the law applies,  in the case of a gTLD, the censorship is global. This is one country imposing its laws to the whole world. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Patrick Vande Walle
> 
> 
> On 31 Aug 2011, at 15:33, Sally Wentworth wrote:
> 
>> Dear ISOC Chapter Colleagues, 
>> 
>> As you may be aware, efforts to address illegal online activities using DNS filtering techniques have been cropping up all over the globe.  Attached is a DRAFT ISOC paper that outlines the issue and offers ISOC's concerns with this approach.  This paper is aimed at a non-technical audience. 
>> 
>> We want to share this draft paper with you and seek your views on its content.  Because this paper will help inform an IGF Workshop in September, we would appreciate if you could send us any comments as soon as possible but not later than FRIDAY, 09 SEPTEMBER.  This way, we will have time to consider all the views as we put together a final version. 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Sally Wentworth
>> Andrei Robachevsky
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <dns-filtering-ISOC.pdf>
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