[governance] A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears

[Carlos Afonso]

McT, the servers are in the Bahamas.

--c.a.

McTim wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br> wrote:
>> Fine, there might be horrid cases elsewhere, but there is no
>>  justification for yet anoter violation of rights by the US government
>>  regarding the Internet space. BTW, the servers were not in US territory,
> 
> Which servers, web or DNS?
> 
>>  and the company is based in Spain.
>>
>>  As I said, anyone who purchases a generic domain name is a risk-taker
>>  regarding the USA's "reasons of State".
> 
> In this case, the registrar took action, not the registry, so it
> remains to be seen if a non-US .com registrar (and non-US registrant)
> would take the same action. Probably not. Then the question (that I
> think you are raising) is would VRSN remove the records from the .com
> zone in such a case.
> 
> I would  hope not.
> 

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