The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
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Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, your girlfriend is obviously an adult! Case closed! ;-) More seriously, she does seem to be rather, er, focused on the topic of sex... Which is great, but I can see why they would object, if sex-related things are banned in Lybia.
(lol, yes she is an adult!) to your main point: Well that's kind the issue isn't it? Yes Violet is 'focused on the topic of sex' she's a leading author in the field (30+ books on Amazon), appears on Oprah show about the topic, lectures at universities, etc. But if you are right, isn't that too far if a domain authority removes someone's domain because the line of work and academic research they are in? Like I said, t…
It would definitely be too far in the UK or the US. Apparently it's not in Libya.
A screenshot I saw of the main vb.ly page had a picture with enough flesh that it itself was probably illegal under Libya law.
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Perhaps you could share why you think Wikipedia is wrong? " Sharia is a topic of highly emotional argument right now, with lots of bigotry, ignorance, and fear-mongering. That's enough reason to suspect Wikipedia might be wrong. Wikipedia is terrible on anything like that. On things nobody much cares about, like the history of the Marvel villain MODOK, it's great.
Actually, my experience is that Wikipedia is excellent on subjects like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology . It's generally uncontroversial topics with little interest among Wikipedia readers that have poor-quality articles; see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhus_coriaria .
Wikipedia has an excellent political system that decides disputes on the basis of the quality of the arguments rather than voting or autocratic declarations. For this reason and the fact that one of wikipedia's 5 pillars is a neutral point of view (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) I would tend to think that their articles on controversial topics are much like controversial laws after they have been extensively litigated: settled and accurate.
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will only comment on your use of the term Sharia law. The term's widely misunderstood, especially after the events in NYC this summer. Just so that you know, Sharia "law" is just six principles: 1. The right to the protection of life. 2. The right to the protection of family. 3. The right to the protection of education. 4. The right to the protection of religion. 5. The right to the protection of property (access t…
...when everyone was throwing around arguments against "infecting the constitution with Sharia" even though no one actually knows what Sharia is. Sadly, quite a few of the people who are ignorant about what Sharia is are probably also ignorant about what is written in the US Constitution. We're equal opportunity ignorant here in the US. :(
Freedom of speech is NOT compatible with the protection of the Islamic faith from depicting or criticizing Mohamed, PERIOD. There is zero room for negotiation there. So in that context there is NO misunderstanding that the U.S. constitution and sharia are not compatible.
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, your girlfriend is obviously an adult! Case closed! ;-) More seriously, she does seem to be rather, er, focused on the topic of sex... Which is great, but I can see why they would object, if sex-related things are banned in Lybia.
(lol, yes she is an adult!) to your main point: Well that's kind the issue isn't it? Yes Violet is 'focused on the topic of sex' she's a leading author in the field (30+ books on Amazon), appears on Oprah show about the topic, lectures at universities, etc. But if you are right, isn't that too far if a domain authority removes someone's domain because the line of work and academic research they are in? Like I said, t…
>even if Violet's own life, work and research is against their laws (somehow, perhaps).
Under crazy interpretations of Sharia law, Violet probably would have been stoned by now.
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. If in fact, that's what the original text says, then I don't think it's just semantics to avoid slamming the original text. I think it's important to distinguish between a religion or ideal - say, Christianity, or democracy - and what people do under that name. If church X doesn't follow the clear teachings of Jesus, that doesn't reflect poorly on Jesus, but on church X. If nation Y has rigged elections,…
Sure, if one specific church is being heterodox, you can blame that on the church. And if it were one specific nation implementing shariah law as being all these nasty things, you could say it's just that nation. But what happens when _every_ nation that implements shariah law oppresses women, prohibits freedom of religion, and in general is a repressive society? 'Shariah' is a label. If all the nations that apply th…
Perhaps you should educate yourself about moderate islamic countries?
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed on general point, however the sad truth is that Internet is soon to become Chinese (with their ipv6 progress and economic status), so we better be ready to translate .com rules into chinese to be good citizens ;)
Sounds like you've been listening to too much Glenn Beck.
No, I'm listening to too much Jon Stewart in fact, but it has nothing to do with where the things are headed. Read up on CNGI if really interested.
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#188While I'm as against Sharia law as the next privileged westerner/godless heathen, I found the complaint that the rules weren't in English really amusing. Why should a country's national ccTLD rules be in English? It's a domain space for that country, not for making convenient short URLs for Americans to use on Twitter. Why would a country run under Sharia law want to allow services like bit.ly and others to use their…
(I'm the [former?] owner of vb.ly and that's my blog post linked above) I found the complaint that the rules weren't in English really amusing. Why should a country's national ccTLD rules be in English? It's a domain space for that country, not for making convenient short URLs for Americans to use on Twitter. So I'm not American, so this isn't about imperialist America wanting everything to be in English. The issue i…
it's quite unhelpful not to provide ANY resources or links to where I can read Libyan Law in English
Even if they could give you their entire body of law (including court decisions!), there'd be sure to be translation errors, or laws which you can't understand without cultural context. Then they'd have people complaining about getting misled. The answer is to consult a Libyan lawyer.
Re: The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possibly. I'm not sure if I have more trust in Verisign (which was willing to put wildcard records into .com TLD (a long time ago, yes, but…)) or the local cz.NIC, as an association of czech ISPs and registrars with open policies and membership.
Verisign is a complete pain in the butt, a company that should have been taken to the cleaners long ago. But I don't deal with them directly (though they keep trying) but through my registrar, like most people. Verisign once upon a time actually was a half decent company but then they got greedy and started screwing people over.
Verisign once upon a time actually was a half decent company
When was that? Network Solutions never gave good value. When NSF privatized domain registration in 1993, they paid NSI $6M to run it for two years; it couldn't've cost anywhere near that much. They were supposed to set up a more efficient ordering system (developing it was part of the $6M deal), but didn't. They couldn't be held to the terms of the deal, though, because the NSF had set it up as a cooperative agreement, rather than a contract, so that they could evade government procurement rules.
Here's how bad their early service was. In 1996, I was considering giving my dad ourlastname.com for Christmas. I emailed an ISP local to him, to ask if they could host the domain for him. I then decided it was a bad idea (giving somebody something that takes work); but, before I contacted them again, I got a bill from Network Solutions for the domain name. (It was misspelled, too, but that was probably the ISP's fault.) I told NSI it was a mistake, that I hadn't authorized it, but they told me I couldn't cancel the registration; only the ISP could do so. The argument that person A should not be able to incur charges for person B didn't cut any ice.