[Gllug] OT: Recommend UK domain host

[david at gbenet.com]

Hi Philip,

I think I will invent a new term "cyber-hoodies" - for the mindless
trolls that are out there. But the "internet" represents "freedom" - not
a freedom for a chosen few - or those academically qualified - but a
freedom for all - be they anarchists (which I kind of support) or be
they Muslim extremists or raving loony Zionists - or plain and simple
criminals from the former soviet union or some african state - to the
mindless uneducated "hoodie" which I don't . "Cyber-chavs."

It was all fun - but now commercial interests play a leading role. Most
Western countries are agreed you can not control the internet - though
countries like China think you can. We are a self-regulating group of
reasonable human beings - who never question "freedom of speech." We
protect ourselves as best we can from the spammers criminals and trolls
that are out there.

We can't bring morals or ethics into unregulated communications that are
both local and global - the danger is in this cyber world of happiness
we forget real issues of concern - poverty sustainable energy -
pollution - the global movement of capital. The lack of political
freedoms in say North Korea. Burma, China. The lack of women's rights in
Muslim countries - the mutilation of young women in Africa.

Any way my 10 week old kitten needs feeding.

Happy days

David

So we have a "few" cyber-hoodies" -   

general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> On 11/11/10 11:06, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>   
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> I have been with them since 1986 - in fact when the US
>> government/military whatever decided to create a private company -
>> Network Solutions took over my account from them.
>>
>> Being an oldy - I have had no problems with them - I suspect that new
>> accounts get a pile of shit and they have more commercial interests now.
>> I can phone them - e-mail them and they say "yes Sir how can be of help."
>>
>> With the rapid growth in people starting up Name Servers offering low
>> cost domain name registration - there have been problems no propagation
>> between name servers. They have always been good to me - having once
>> been an ISP I can't say with hand on heart that the growth of the world
>> wide web or the internet has brought great news. Though our hopes for a
>> much more united planet is still a dream.
>>
>> David
>>    
>>     
>
> Yeah, that's the sad part isn't it. It turns out that people are either 
> nice or douches in the same proportion as they are in the real world, 
> perhaps worse when the threat of violent retribution is removed.
>
> It's not entirely hopeless though, it's quite heartening to see 
> progressive campaign groups like 38degrees manage to harness the 
> fantastically economical scaling of net based communication and I think 
> scrappy indy media networks like TwiT are also a sign of what might be 
> but for every one of the good examples there's 100 spammers, 419 
> fraudsters and trolls :/
>
> Roger
>   
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