[109236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Wed Nov 12 16:10:14 2008
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:55:32 -0800
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Jason Ross wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 14:16, Nick Newman <NNewman@nw3c.org> wrote:
>> How many cops does it take to throw a community lynching?
>>
>
> None.
> The question that remains is: Why is the community having to resort to lynching?
>
> Following the metaphor and using the US "Old West" as an example,
> lynchings were largely due to one of the following:
>
> * a lack of organized law enforcement
> * a lack of effective law enforcement
The problem is that to fix either of those problems you'd have to wade
through a fever swamp of "facists online!" claims from all the
pseudo-anarchists who start twitching at the thought of any agency
imposing it's will on the internet.
--
Jeff Shultz
