[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Purpose in accordance with Registry Agreement section 2.18

[Neil Schwartzman]

Heh.

John, I forget, isn’t China the place where one must go with government ID to register a domain? 

How does any of this discussion at hand protect a dissident? 

Would any dissident in their right mind trust whois privacy, even if whois is paper-thin, to protect their life with the weight of the Chinese (or other) government on the other side of the scale? 

Nothing can be done to redact whois information sufficiently to prevent governmental abuse.

If a dissident were to rely on current or future redaction, they are painfully naive, and likely residing in a work-camp in Tibet (or elsewhere), at best.

"Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you." -  Ai WeiWei

> On Jun 6, 2017, at 7:19 PM, John Bambenek via gnso-rds-pdp-wg <gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> For the
> mythical Chinese dissident, we can even direct them to Security Without
> Borders (an organization I'm tangentially part of) that can provide far
> more in-depth discussion on how to protect their privacy from
> nation-state adversaries (in fact, many of the people on this list
> arguing for maintaining access to WHOIS data are ALSO helping people pro
> bono who are facing real threats and consequences if their identities
> were exposed).