[109238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Fischer)
Wed Nov 12 16:44:30 2008
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:44:23 -0500
From: "Steven Fischer" <sfischer1967@gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <491B42C4.7080805@wvi.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I wonder how many of these "pseudo-anarchists" are bewailing the lack of
regulation in the financial markets, given the events of the past couple of
months? A certain amount of regulation and oversight is needed, both in the
financial world and on the Internet. I am all for seeing how little we can
get by with, but clearly, some is needed.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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