A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
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> The potential consequential damages are pretty
> dramatic, and the preponderance of the business
> community will go ape if they know one person can
> shut off their customer communications.
Ah, the dark side of private self-governance. Since the Internet can't be
controlled by anyone, how could one person possibly have such power? Would
it be better if the RBL function were managed in a non-discriminatory
manner, in the collective interest of the Internet as a whole? I would have
thought that it would be perfectly normal for one person to have such power,
since there are lots of other such people, and lots of different substitutes
for RBL. If there are, then the enormous influence of RBL and its impact on
interconnectivity and therefore freedom of speech can simply be ignored.
There are lots of substitutes for RBL, aren't there?
Craig McTaggart
Graduate Student
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
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