Rob
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Re: Show me the money!
said by yock  :I have news for Focus on the family, the multiple billions of dollars being spent on internet pornography does more than anything else to legitimize it. Requiring them to use one unified TLD might actually help their cause. Then, you can't reason with fanatics. I get the distinct impression that their mission is to remove such content from the web entirely. Some even say that the Internet became so popular because of all the pornography. The mere fact that people could go online, in the privacy of their own home, and watch pornography and feel "anonymous" at the same type was why it's so popular.
But I'm more concerned that maybe it was these two U.S. based groups that forced ICANN to reject the .xxx TLD. It's stories like these that gets foreign countries upset that the U.S. has so much control over the Internet. So what if two U.S. based family groups got their panties in a twist. |
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eco
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| On the surface I'd probably agree with you, but I've been following this issue pretty closely and it seems that ICANN itself and the porn industry were the ones that really ended up getting it rejected. The porn industry didn't want it because it could end up creating an internet red light district or ghetto where the government forces content they don't like to register their domain and then filters can just block the whole TLD. ICANN didn't want it because of the same reason. They were afraid the government would force them into the content enforcement business, making sure porn sites only have .XXX domains, which is well beyond their current government mandate and what they have the capability to do right now. Not only that, but who decides what constitutes porn? There are US government websites about breastfeeding that have actual photographs of bare breasts. Would that be porn? You'd have to set up a whole censorship board, which eventually would get thrown out by the Supreme Court anyway. |
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