[anti-abuse-wg] abuse of the internet by multinationals and nation states

In message <2b9e675.bf1cb7ec.1633084c1d3 at gmx.ch>, 
Tobi <jahlives at 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