[anti-abuse-wg] GDPR - positive effects on email abuse

In message <5F2D3EAE-BF59-4E61-B17B-BF45F3DF0922 at consulintel.es>, 
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet at consulintel.es> wrote:

>Whois, as everything in the life, has good and bad things.
>
>Against: Privacy invaded. In fact, when you register a new domain and you
>associate a visible email to it, in a matter of hours, you get spam.

This is an entirely specious argument used in an attempt to justify a
ridiculous conclusion.

It's like saying that if one goes out out of one's home, then there is
a finite non-zero chance that one will be run over by a drunk driver,
and that therefore, everyone should stay inside and never leave their
homes.  This "solution" is being offered in place of the obvious one,
i.e. working to identify drunk drivers and then working to get them off
the roads (or equivalently, working to identify spammers and then working
to get them off the Internet, which is what I do).

To be clear, I really don't care if any set of private citizens decide
for themselves, and of their own free will, that they should never leave
their homes in order to avoid ever being run over.  That's their choice
to make.  What I -do- mind is regional governmental bodies, such as the
unelected European Council, dictating to me, and to everyone else on the
planet, European or otherwise, that we all -must- deal with the problem
of drunk drivers by staying inside our homes 24/7.

Just because you Europeans have become infected with some kind of obscure
mental disease that impairs your abilities to think clearly, or to effectively
differentiate reasonable solutions to problems from silly ones, do you
really have to go around *spreading* this disease to the rest of the
world?

(I won't even ask what makes you all think that you have the divine right
to do so.  I doubt that the answer would be any different today than it was
in the year 1095.)


Regards,
rfg