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join:2001-11-28
Wilmington, DE | reply to Rob
Re: Show me the money! 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. |
