Respect Due Process, Keep Registrant Data Private

[Douglass Clem <crashsystems@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN –

Even if the definition of "commercial" wasn't extremely ambiguous, people's
private WHOIS information shouldn't be made public just to make life easier
for a few multinational media conglomerates.

Companies who's intellectual property has been infringed by a website owner
already have a means to redress their grievances - its called the legal
system. If due process is good enough for the millions of citizens of
democracies around the world, then it is good enough for rich and
privileged media companies.

Removing privacy from WHOIS information does nothing useful for the
enforcement of the rule of law, but does make easy the quasi-legal witch
hunts that large media companies are so fond of. Furthermore, it endangers
the peace and safety of individuals and small businesses who run perfectly
legal websites.

Please do not sacrifice the rule of law to appease big business.

-- 
Douglass Clem
crashsystems.net
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