In message <yqxpr01mb632662072f80d1a4244002e39b...@yqxpr01mb6326.canprd01.prod. OUTLOOK.COM>, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As I've already noted, the Europeans have brilliantly constructed for >> themselves a world in which none of their citizens can even know anymore >> if they are living nextdoor to a serial child rapist. >> >> This is not the path that I want to go down. Is this the path that YOU >> want to go down John? > >Yes, yes, yes. I absolutely DO want to go down that path. Noted. You are entitled to your preferences, which in many jurisdictions includes not being at all obliged to wear a face mask during a deadly global pandemic. Others of us however may have some different feelings about how society (and the Internet) should function in order to best serve the common good. >ARIN is entirely justified in, as a policy, *not* enabling lynch mobs or >vigilante justice in general. Vigilantism represents, and also contributes >to, a breakdown of order in the governmental and structural mechanisms... So simple requests for information now represent "vigilante justice"? Please do continue. I am facinated. >Have you realized that your emails resemble vigilantism more and more, >with every accusation you publicly level? No, I'm sorry, I don't. I presented a set of facts which quite certainly _may_ have represented a possible instance in which ARIN made a small mistake. As John has now explained, it didn't. How you made the leap from that rather simple inquiry to "vigilantism" is frankly beyond me. >Let me re-state that more specifically: your continuation of an extremely >vocal one-man crusade to eliminate all manner of false pretense from the >internet is not helping. Your opinion is noted. Other people appreciate the work I have done, and the work that I am doing. >By constantly questioning and challenging it, you are eroding the very >authority ARIN has to handle the problem. You're dismantling, one >microscopic bit at a time, the only entity with the authority to >help you accomplish your goal! I hardly think so. ARIN is functioning today just as well as it did two weeks ago. I haven't "dismantled" anything. I understand that there are a lot of people in society who feel that citizens should never question anything that is done by people in positions of authority. You are apparently one of them. I am not. And indeed, I am and remain proud of the fact that I do so, even when no one else will. (As you are perhaps not aware, I uncovered and exposed a rather sizable scandal in another region precisely because I _did_ question authority when others were loath to do so.) Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
