Re: [At-Large] WHOIS policy

John L wrote:

I don't deny that there are people who need anonymous content hosting and communication, but I have never understood the argument that it's a problem that ICANN has to solve.

They don't have to solve it, but they shouldn't be making it more difficult either. Why should I have to hire a lawyer to engage (in the US) in First Amendment-protected speech, when the technology could make it easy for anyone to do so without going through counsel? --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/