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Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID

Posted by timothy on from the cat-detector-vans-are-on-the-way dept.

ktetch-pirate (1850548) writes Earlier this week, Nominet launched the .uk domain to great fanfare, but hidden in that activity has been Nominet's new policy of exposing personal domain owners' home addresses. Justification is based on a site being judged "commercial," which can mean anything from a few Google ads or an Amazon widget, to an email subscription box or linking to too many commercial sites, according to Nominet reps. In the meantime though, they want your driving license or passport to ensure "accuracy" because they "want to make things safe."

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  1. Re:the internet is growing up by bmo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What a fucking boot-licker you are.

    >nerd playground

    Back when it was a "nerd playground" people used their real names more often than not. Because we didn't have to worry about morons like yourself. Because it was safe to do. Because we didn't have to worry about being pizza bombed or SWATted.

    But that's entirely beside the point of idiots like you insisting that we should not have the right in e-space to call ourselves whatever the fuck we want as long as we're not trying to defraud anyone. THIS IS A RIGHT THAT EXISTS IN MEATSPACE you fucking tool.

    Why is it that people such as yourself and FUCKING ERIC S. RAYMOND have a fucking huge problem with it? "They" - the people whose boots you are so willing to lick - do not give one flying fuck about you. Yet people like you and ESR want to give them the tools to remove any protections we have out here from criminals, corrupt politicians, police-states, and others. This war against anonymity is fucking odious, orwellian, and frankly fucking offensive as a wet fart on a hard wooden pew in church.

    NO. FUCK YOU. IF YOU WANT TO USE YOUR REAL NAME, YOU GO RIGHT AHEAD AND USE IT. THE REST OF US WILL EXERCISE OUR RIGHTS IF WE CHOOSE TO. THE LIKES OF YOU AND ERIC S. RAYMOND AND HIS "HOTGIRL69 PROBLEM" CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF.

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    BMO.