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Kid-Safe Domain Created

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the virtual-sandboxes dept.

Jadecristal writes "The Washington Post announces that President Bush has signed legislation to create a .kids.us domain. The legislation mandates that those with a .kids.us site not be allowed to link to any site outside the .kids.us domain." At the very least, it makes filtering easy.

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  1. Hrm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if anyone will register http://nek.kids.us :)

  2. Not the first time by brianvan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently, .cn has similar restrictions...

  3. Re:which kids? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Moderators, please change the rating of the parent to (-1, unpatriotic), and forward his message to the UN.

    I'm still waiting on the .us domain name suffix.

  4. Re:Bad solution. by lpontiac · · Score: 5, Funny
    It would be much more sensible to create a domain of non-kid-"safe" content.

    I propose we call it .com

  5. Where's Geoffrey? by zx-6e · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why didn't they just call it kids.r.us? Then they could sell toys too!

  6. Better be quick.. by EvilCabbage · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. if you want to register goatse.kids.us ...

    1. Re:Better be quick.. by dotgod · · Score: 2, Funny

      Either Whinnie the Poo or this.

    2. Re:Better be quick.. by Maj.+Kong · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Oh bother," said Pooh, as he pulled open his sphincter.

      Maj. Kong

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      Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
  7. Re:Off-Topic (was Re:Not the first time) by CokeBear · · Score: 1, Funny

    Some people who post here (like me) automatically get +2 to all their posts. Its not because of any conspiracy, we're just better than you.

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    Reality has a liberal bias
  8. Search Engines by SEWilco · · Score: 3, Funny
    • "Now we can give you the best placement in all .kids.us search engines! Just send $19.95 a month to us, and we'll submit your site to every .kids.us search engine that we know of!"
    • "Google News For Kids. Today's headlines:
      • Sesame Street Year 8 replays begin today on a network which we can't name because it is not in .kids.us.
      • Someplace in the world, the Muppets Movie 4 became available in a certain format.
      • The Little Prince product line has not been selling well in the specialty store where it is available."
  9. Next up... [.parents.us] by dagg · · Score: 4, Funny
    By Brie Linetoe
    Washington Boast
    Wednesday, December 4th, 2002; 12:30PM

    President Bush today signed legislation that seals off the P-rated (Parents Only) "neighborhood" for parents on the World Wide Web.

    The Dot-parents implementation will contain items that kids may not look at. All content that is suitable for viewing after kids go to bed will be available at .parents.us sites.

    These sites will only be available after 10PM in most time zones, except for CST (which will have it available after 9PM).

    Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), remarked that the new domain was just what his doctor ordered. Sen. Dorgan says "We're not censoring anything. We're just making it available after 10PM for parents only."

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    Example of .parents.us site
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    Sex - Find It
  10. Finally! My 800th post, and Amazingly Insightful! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now GW can have a whole TLD aimed at his reading level!

    Bar and George must be very proud.

    Mods - please don't mod this up, Dubya can only count to 3.

  11. Re:OK so far by Wingnut64 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or:
    catholic.kids.us
    satanist.kids.us
    They are both religions, and as such cannot be discriminated. If they allow one but not the other they are setting up a state religion.

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  12. Slashdot.Kids.Us by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny
    News for Kids, Stuff You're Allowed To Know

    Site News: Kids, when you submit news stories remember to link only within .kids.us and to not say anything unpatriotic or the trained mammals will bite your fingers until you behave.

  13. Easy Filtering by slaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yup, easy filtering. Now I have a way to filter out some of those stupid kid's sites that are keeping me from finding more porno.

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  14. Re:Bad solution. by susano_otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't .ca the TLD for California? I thought Canada was .ca.uk, or .ca.fr, or something.

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    Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.

  15. Re:Well by evil_roy · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..."just as easy to close the browser."

    You obviously haven't been to any porn sites

  16. Re:This is just a whitelist by pmineiro · · Score: 5, Funny

    So any site under kids.us is safe for kids. Sites are only safe for kids if they're under kids.us. Why not just create a whitelist of kids-safe sites. In order to get on the list, you must not link to sites that aren't on the whitelist.

    Works out the same, but eliminates the cost of the domain to the website owner.

    Well, the computational complexity of your solution is O(n) in space, whereas Bush's solution is O(1) space.

    Looks like George W. Bush is a better software engineer than you are!

    -- p

  17. Re:Bad solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I mean, god knows I have a hell of a time doing that! I keep hearing that there's nekkid photos on the internet but I just can't seem to find any anywhere!

  18. Re:so? by morgajel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've grown up to be a responsible, sane adult who isn't mind-controled by the media.

    welcome to the club- now there's 5 of us.

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  19. Re:Bad solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    California doesn't get a TLD. TLDs are only given to countries, whereas California is a planet. I hope this clears things up a little.