​Just how easy does ICANN want it to be for violent people to track down innocents?

["Kate T." <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN,

The newly proposed rules to do away with WHOIS protections are poorly
conceived. Without basic privacy protections, you will put many women's and
men's careers and even lives in danger.

​​
Just how easy does ICANN want it to be for violent people to track down
innocents? How easy does ICANN want it to be for a man or woman running an
adult website to lose all other sources of their income? Should we so
easily "out" all the vulnerable people of our society who find solace on
the web
​ or even *must* use the web to advance their careers​
?

WHOIS protections provide the bare minimum security; they're akin to giving
a toddler
​a single
arm floatie and throwing him into the pool, head first. Taking away what
little security there is? One has to wonder what ICANN's priorities are.

All this will do is force (more) people to invest in post office boxes,
which are a lot more expensive than WHOIS guards and still don't provide
enough security.

​Please reconsider this.

Thank you,
Kate Thomas