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06 Mar 2022
Last week the Ukrainian government sent a letter to ICANN
asking them to revoke the “.ru”, “.рф” and “.su” top-level domains.
It also said they were asking RIPE, which manages IP addresses in Europe, to revoke
Russian IP addresses. Both ICANN and RIPE said no.
Other people have explained why it would have been a policy disaster, but beyond that,
neither would actually have worked.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notru.html
12 Sep 2021
Technologists and law enforcement have been arguing about cryptography
policy for about 30 years now.
People talk
past each other, with each side concluding the other side are unreasonable
jerks, because of some fundamental incompatible assumptions between
two conceptual worlds in collision.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/catastrophe.html
18 Jan 2021
When one person transmits the speech of another, we have had three legal models which I would
characterize as Magazine, Bookstore, and Railroad.
The Magazine model makes the transmitting party a publisher who is
entirely responsible for whatever the material says.
The publisher selects and reviews all the material it published.
If users contribute content such as letters to the editor, the publisher
reviews them and decides which to publish.
The publishing process usually involves some kind of broadcast, so
that many copies of the material go to different people.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/commoncast.html
23 Oct 2020
The 20th century was the golden age of surveillance.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/goodold.html
01 Jul 2020
A fundamental rule of trademarks is that they have to be distinctive, and that
nobody can register a trademark on a generic term like "wine" or "plastic."
In a case decided today
by the U.S. Supreme Court, the court decided 8-1 that online travel agent Booking.com
could register its domain name as a trademark.
In this case, I think the majority got it wrong, and Justice Breyer's lone dissent is correct.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/booking.html
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