[governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain (TLD)

[Sivasubramanian M]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:

> Although I often agree with Lauren, in this case I do not.
>
> His argument is essentially this:
>
>  - Thing X can be used for ill purposes (among good purposes)
>
>  - Therefore thing X must be banned.
>
> Let's apply that to the internet:
>
>  - The internet can be used for financial scams and ugly content.
>
>  - Therefore the internet must be banned.
>
> Oh that is so much fun, let's try it again:
>
>  - Airplanes can be used to drop bombs.
>
>  - Therefore airplanes must be banned.
>
> We can use that silly logic over and over again and we'd end up in a world
> in which everything from medicine to automobiles to food is banned.
>
> The faux logic forgets that almost everything is a balance of good and bad.
>  And it also forgets that quite often the approach for dealing with the bad
> is to do the obvious: deal with the bad and not ban the thing in which the
> bad is ensconced.
>

+1. This rationale in itself is quite balanced



>
>        --karl--
>
>
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