Re: [opennic-discuss] Vote to keep or drop peering with NameCoin

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Wasn't the whole point of getting rid of Namecoin was to not have to worry =
about blacklisting things anymore?

Blacklisting is a bad idea, whether it be for ransomware, porn, adblocking,=
 politics, religion, or anything else. Even ISPs don't do that, and can't d=
o that in jurisdictions where there's net neutrality.

Policing the world is usually a really bad idea.

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-Dan Q

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 18:55:27 -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]> wr=
ote:

> Jeff Taylor wrote:
> > It could relate to any domains, opennic or icann.  And I'm not saying=20
> > we WILL, I'm just saying we COULD have that option.  Like with the=20
> > spamhaus listings, use of this would be up to the individual T2=20
> > operators.  At the moment there is nothing planned, I just wrote the=20
> > API so we could expand on its use later if we chose to.
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> I suggest a policy restricting the use of non-malware blacklists to=20
> private T2 servers.  In other words, T2 servers using blacklists for any=
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> category other than malware would not be eligible to be listed in the=20
> public directory.
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> We might even want to require public T2 servers to blacklist known=20
> malware domains, but that is sure to be highly controversial. Should we=20
> censor ransomware?
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> -- Jacob
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