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> From: D S Misell <[email protected]> > To: Richard Forno <[email protected]> > Subject: Fwd: Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9 > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:35:20 +0100 > > fyi > Yours Faithfully, > > > David S. Misell MIET MBCS CISSP > > 0207 7239135 > > http://linkedin.com/in/misell <http://linkedin.com/in/misell> > > https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/b9e605c3-39d7-47f6-a38b-af3cebe94465 > > https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/30d3d123-a869-4d77-9a99-db7a4efb9f90 > <https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/30d3d123-a869-4d77-9a99-db7a4efb9f90> > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9 > Date: 24 June 2021 at 23:44:55 BST > To: D S Misell <[email protected]>, Robert Carolina > <[email protected]>, Immo Hüneke <[email protected]>, Dr Stephen > Castell <[email protected]>, paul Cllr M Smith BA Hons MDipNLP > <[email protected]>, "Winckles, Adrian" <[email protected]> > > Thanks David. > > My personal views (and not those of ISOC UK) are that Quad9 has a weak case. > Yes, they are a public resolver operator, as my friend and colleague Thomas > Rickert says, and if that was solely the case, I'd say they'd have a strong > point that they are just serving the DNS in its entirety. But in this case, > Quad9 already filters out Malware and Phishing sites. It strengthens the > point that I have always said, which is that once you start filtering, > demonstrating that this is possible both technologically and legally, you are > on a slippery slope, whereas there will always be requests to filter more - > and then where to you stop? Do you implement filtering lists based on court > orders? Which courts? Do you do it from your own intelligence? Do you block > out political speech that you do not agree with? This is a very difficult > question that reaches further than a simple technical implementation. The > problem is that today, it looks like many, perhaps most, open resolvers are > implementing block lists, yet they have become the nemesis of countries that > impose a tighter blocking regime on their own country's DNS infrastructure - > and the list of cases such as the one below, will increase. Sometimes I wish > I had trained as a lawyer. :-) > Kindest regards, > > Olivier > > On 24/06/2021 23:42, D S Misell wrote: >> Quick intro: >> Stephen, Rob BCS Law SG Committee >> Olivier ISOC England Chair >> Paul BCS LAW SG Chair. >> Adrian W Forsenics Chair >> Immo Bcs SPA chair. >> >> should we have a view on this ruling? >> -- Iw mailing list [email protected] http://sticklist.org/mailman/listinfo/iw_sticklist.org
