QUOTE(jorge @ Wed 2nd January 2008, 6:50am)
QUOTE(Proabivouac @ Wed 2nd January 2008, 2:45am)
QUOTE(jorge @ Tue 1st January 2008, 11:46pm)
This
Farazilu sounds a little fake to me - the misspellings seem a little too clichéd:
Wait, so now the initiator of the petition is some kind of plant?
An "
agent provocateur", quite possibly.
You've GOT to be kidding. You don't think some kid in the Middle east could have organized this (and who knows if it is a kid).
I've lots of experience in the middle east, with everything from kings to cabbies. This seems quite legit to me. I think you underestimate people from smaller, perceived poorer countries. Any person there has access to a computer at a net cafe, and often for free from friends.
Farazilu doesn't sound fake to me at all, as a name. Just because we don't have a famous basketball player with that name doesn't mean it isn't a nickname convention. If you can confirm that theory with an Egyptian friend or reference, I'll withdraw this statement, but not until. In fact, I can ask some people I know if that looks legit. Not today, maybe not even this week - but I will later.
QUOTE(Moulton @ Wed 2nd January 2008, 6:05am)
I can has arbitration?
If you meant "Icann", then "yes", they have legally enforcable international dispute resolution, out of the Dispute Settlement office of WIPO. It's a separate-but-attached part of WIPO, started by the current Director General of WIPO (and what probably got him propelled to the top).
But this unit (Icann DR) only addresses URL disputes (one of the first famous squatting cases was the Madonna squatting case, where she got her name back). Just an FYI, filing a case there costs only about 500 or 1000 dollars (I forget which). No lawyer needed.
But the muhammed cartoons on wiki isn't something they'd handle. There are other venues for that, and ones which could adjudicate and enforce internationally. Just not the Wipo-ICANN one. (and I know ICANN is based in the US, just that the DR stuff goes on in Europe).