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House Committee to Hold Whois Hearings, Kowtow to IP Interests
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I hope so. Someone has to step forward on the side of reason and oppose lunacy. If you recall the hearings in 2001 when one committee member was incensed at the horrible person(s) who used a Senator's name to slam another Senator and felt that whois privacy should not trump IP interests? It didn't matter who got hurt as long as IP interests were served. Identity theft, stalking, spam... those are just pesky things that don't effect that many people, so why even bother with their rights.
Then there was the representative who was equally incensed over the .CC registry charging for accessing a whois record and that it was sent by snail mail and the registrant notified of the inquiry. After all, it should be open and free, right? Why should a registrant have any rights?
Gawd forbid the public should have any rights any more. IP reigns supreme over the US Constitution and any other national laws. To heck with other countries, btw. Who do they think they are anyway?
I truly hope that there will be saner heads submitting testimony, Michael?
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