encourage or mandate? --- Here lies the paradox - we all agree that online crime is fundamentally against the common good and detrimental to socio-economic behavior yet we are using "diplomatic" languages like "encourage" to deal with ESSENTIAL services which are being aggressively attacked by criminals. Why not mandate operators (through codified laws) to cooperate with law enforcement and punishable if no cooperation is forthcoming? Once we have defined what constitutes essential service, issues of privacy goes off the window. Example? Take the issue of what happened 1/6 in America by the rioters? Should information seeking the roots of this alleged insurrection be forcibly provided by all parties or allow "presidential privilege" to stop such a core matter? the same applies in cyberspace.

Source author: Bennette Thomas thomasb@dominica.gov.dm