ox <an...@ox.co.za> wrote:
>Firstly I would like to comment that the multinationals and their funded trade >groups (and their lobby orgs) shouted from the rooftops that if the GDPR came >into effect, Internet in the EU would collapse and there would be digital doom >and gloom. I am not a multinational. I am an individual volunteer anti-abuse researcher. And yet even -I- have told everyone I know that the disappearance of public WHOIS is and will be an epic catastrophy. If there was cybercrime on the Internet before, it will be increased, going forward, by tenfold. >How wrong they were (hindsight is perfect - as we can all clearly see) Be patient. The change has only just occurred. >The EU has truly become a world and global leader in the reclamation of >individual rights and the free Internet. Here on this side of the pond, one usually has to turn on Fox News in order to be treated to this level of rubbish. The only thing that has happened is that private researchers the world over have been effectively blinded due to the supreme arogance and idiocy of europeans... europeans who, in their religious fervor, have come to view it as their holy obligation to foist their demented notions onto the rest of the world, whether any of the rest of us like it or not. Meanwhile the malevolent forces of state-sponsored intrigue and violation of human rights are and shall remain totally unfettered and unaffected by GDPR, as they will be the first ones to obtain special exemptions allowing them to continue to see WHOIS data. The CIA, NSA, BDN, and FSB are undoubtedly celebrating the arrival of GDPR, as it further entrenches their special status at the expense of the great unwashes masses. Friday was a sad day for both transparency and democracy, but all across the globe both criminals and statists undoubtedly celebrated it with toasts of champaign. Regards, rfg
