Keep Protecting Free Expression on the Internet

[Jonathan McCartney <jmccartney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ICANN,

I'm the owner of numerous domains. As a regular user of the Internet, I 
sometimes wish to see beyond the proxy registrations. They can sometimes hinder 
contacting the domain owner when that occasional need arises.

However, that cannot outweigh the critical importance these proxy registration 
services are. They offer protection to free expression on the Internet, without 
fear of reprisal from those who would wish to silence them. People can post all 
matter of stuff on existing sites anonymously. Anonymity underpins our 
existence online. By why should that anonymity only exist for posting on 
existing sites, rather than posting on a site you create?

Removing that anonymity for website owners forces people who wish to express 
something which others may disdain to post to others' websites. The expression 
is no longer free if anonymity is only offered arbitrarily through the 
constraints of another. Anonymity, which, cannot be guaranteed as you must 
always accept that that owner can arbitrarily expose you and unleash the most 
horrible and wretched elements of the Internet on you.

What critical necessity does this proposal serve that you would plaster names 
and locations of dissidents, activists, and minority advocates for all the 
hackers, hatemongers, and trolls on the Internet?


Please reconsider,
Jonathan McCartney
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