Re: [ga] Unfair?

[Dale Farmer <Dale@cybercom.net>]

"Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" wrote:

> Michael,
> sigh,) I'll face days or weeks of postings about how devious and underhanded
> I am as a representative of a large corporation, but I will try this anyway.
>
> Gathering up the interests of users is a challenge. And yes, individuals are
> extremely important, but the good of society sometimes overrides... that is
> the genesis of the U.S. constitution, isn't' it?
>
> Our foregathers decided to do the common good thing, rather than maintain
> the individuals forever thing...You might not like it, but business is being
> conducted on the internet and that means stability issues, consumer fraud,
> and trademark protection are relevant issues.
> You can categorize me as only concerned about big business. but you are
> missing a point which I know you will care about because you care about
> individuals: there's a lot of consumer fraud associated with the misuse of
> trademarked names. We are fighting that and protecting consumers... you
> don't want to see that grow...
>
> Can't we share some concerns about the individual consumers?
>
> Mar

Ms. Cade:
    If there are specific cases of consumer fraud associated with some
domain name being performed, there are reasonably good laws and
mostly functional courts that already address that behavior.  There is
not a need for suppressive action, just because they might be misused.
By that standard, every male need to have his naughty bits
confiscated, because there are rapists out there.

    What is needed is the enforcement of the existing laws against
consumer fraud into the internet space.  Some countries may need
their laws changed to include the internet in the jurisdiction, but that
is a problem for the individual countries to deal with.  There is the
area of fraud that crosses national borders, but again, most of
the countries on this earth are pretty reasonable about extradition.

    The individual consumers of domain names are the ones being
defrauded here, under the color of an international organization
that is working to take control of the internet.  I leave the
speculation as to the reasons for that take over to others.

    --Dale Farmer