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Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the barney-and-teletubbies-considered-safe dept.

lostchicken writes "The Senate has approved the first viable "kid-friendly" system that doesn't try to control the Internet. See the story here. It is an opt-in system that allows a .kids.us domain to be pointed at a site approved as safe, as opposed to an adult only domain type system."

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  1. Re:Questions by CowboyMeal · · Score: 4, Informative
    Read the rest of the article.

    The bill would place a ".kids" subdomain under the control of NeuStar Inc., the Washington telecommunications firm that won the right to manage the ".us" country-code domain last fall.
    The Senate added a provision that would give NeuStar an automatic two- year extension of its contract in return for managing the ".kids" subdomain, a Dorgan aide said.


    They wouldn't deal with ICANN at all, they'd be dealing with NeuStar, who they made a sweet deal with:
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    Your credit card information wants to be free.
  2. Re:Not a laughing matter by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 3, Informative

    and then:

    10. geeks turn inward, form their own centralized government, powered by a giant super-computer AI, and then move underground. After centuries of being geek-less the general populous grows technologically stagnant.

    one day the geeks emerge from their underground lairs with powered suits of armor and enslave the world's population.

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