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Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams KnockedOffline (fwd)

  • From: Jeff Shultz
  • Date: Wed Nov 12 16:10:11 2008
Jason Ross wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 14:16, Nick Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
How many cops does it take to throw a community lynching?


None.
The question that remains is: Why is the community having to resort to lynching?

Following the metaphor and using the US "Old West" as an example,
lynchings were largely due to one of the following:

   * a lack of organized law enforcement
   * a lack of effective law enforcement

The problem is that to fix either of those problems you'd have to wade through a fever swamp of "facists online!" claims from all the pseudo-anarchists who start twitching at the thought of any agency imposing it's will on the internet.

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Jeff Shultz