Thought I should share. Last Monday I registered a domain and purchased some web space from one of larger internet providers. On Tuesday I got an email saying that as part of their verification exercise they want a scanned copy of one of my IDs and also a scanned copy of my credit card. Clearly I didn't do it fast enough for their liking because by Thursday my account was suspended. no second email/warning etc. I raised all kinda hell but... I am beginning to resign myself to the reality that access to the internet at a certain level is a privilege...not a right. On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> wrote:
...Hmmmmmm. I would say they are binary and always yoked, even if uneasily so! One long-time jurist had a pithy response in one instance; freedom of speech has an attached responsibility of not "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theatre".
Here's another of my favourites. I'm for freedom of religion, so long as you're responsible enough not to insist I must bend a knee to your damned foolish one.
I could go on.....but the 'right' to a domain name instituted in a commons surely does have responsibilities! At least, in the public interest.
-Carlton
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On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> wrote:
On 04-Jul-14 10:42, Carlton Samuels wrote:
Rights and responsibilities must be in balance.
I know where the fundamental rights are defined. I do not know where the fundamental responsibilities are defined. The only responsibilities I know of are the ones the States have taken on to defend people's rights.
People are forever coming up responsibilities with which to counter rights, but they have never shown how these responsibilities were agreed upon or made binding.
What I do see is a need to balance rights, they are the foundation we need to build on.
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