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UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains

Posted by samzenpus on from the mine-now-I-take-it dept.

Stoobalou writes "British Police forces could soon have the power to seize any domain associated with criminal activity, under new proposals published today by UK domain registrar Nominet. At present, Nominet has no clear legal obligation to ensure that .uk domains are not used for criminal activities. That situation may soon change, if proposals from the Serious and Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) are accepted."

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  1. Re:Laughable by c0lo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or alternate root DNS servers?

    You know, that used to sound like a really stupid idea. Now I am not so sure.

    Here mate. Just put the entry most convenient to you as the first entry in your DNS list.

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  2. I don't think anybody would be offended by fantomas · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't think many people in the UK would be offended if you asked about our past and wanted to find out more about it. Our ancestors did some good things, and bad things. Most people won't be offended because most of us are less than 100 years old so it's just history to us as well, we didn't personally take part in it or make any of the decisions.

    But I think we'd all be happy for you to take an interest and read up rather than making random generalisations. Wikipedia actually has some pretty reasonable articles, start on the British Empire. Good on you for being up for learning more.

    Indeed we have libel laws, they'll likely be different in England from Scotland as there as two different legal systems.

    Why did we 'lose' the Empire: worth reading up - mixture of social change, political change, and economy. Some places people forced their freedom, other places it was more by agreement. Now we're pretty broke, the first and second world wars changed the world political scene: I believe it's only been in the last five years of so we finally paid back the loans we borrowed from the USA in the 1940s to pay for the second world war, we were pretty much in hock to the USA post-war so the USA could set the conditions to an awful lot of our international involvements (look up "Suez Crisis" for example).