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Kid-Safe Domain Created
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.
Apparently, you want to watch this space.
That was linked from nic.us.. it's the page for the kids.us domain. Apparently Neustar is still holding a public comment period asking for advice on how to run the thing.. apparently they didn't really want to create this domain and don't have any idea how to go about doing the thing, so they seem to be hoping on letting "the community" come up with ideas.
The public comment period isn't over yet, though, so it *looks* like you can't get one yet.. on the other hand, as an interested party (i.e. an individual with a kids-specific site) this would probably be a great opportunity for you to make your voice heard..
No, .ca is Canada.
And there are subdomains: .bc.ca refers to British Columbia, Canada.
If I recall correctly, .ca is also a subdomain for .us - Meaning .ca.us would refer to california, USA. I don't think california has a TLD at all.
Can we say "Tipper Gore"? How about "Hilary Clinton"? "Joe Lieberman"? Need I go on?
a nalysis2.html
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It's a good and oft-ignored point -- censorship (or, more accurately, attempted legislation of consumption behavior) isn't a Left/Liberal-Right/Conservative issue. There are plenty of folks on both sides who'd love to prevent potentially "offensive" material from being sold in stores.
There's more on the differences between the "Left/Right" axis and the "Libertarian/Authoritarian" axis here:
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/
Or, if you want to take the test first and see where you stand:
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/
"Every company is going to be forced to get a kids domain now, or be left out of this "new internet"."
;)
I weep for John Q. Porn indeed.
What's the problem here, exactly ?
That You can't draw attention from the kid-safe domains ? Oh how horrible indeed.
Here's an idea.. You could setup a kid-safe site, apply, and get in.
You can't use google ? shoot.. how horrible..
I guess You're imagining that kids.us won't have an internal search engine then ?
After all, all the kids should be able to find the information they want just by clicking all over the place ? Nuh-uh.
And why indeed would You want to link to CNN headlines ??
"Dominatrix pleads not guilty to murder charge"
Oh yes, I'm sure kids.us will want to explain that one to the kids
How about linking to cnn.kids.us
or just
news.kids.us
kid-safe news for the kid-safe domain.
Here in The Netherlands, we have a special news broadcast called "Jeugdjournaal", it's for kids from age 6-14 or something.
It presents all the news that is 'fit' for kids (i.e. no dominatrices) in a kid-safe kind of way.
This broadcast is also government run, and I haven't seen any specific bias.
They've reported on just about everything the regular news has, just brings it in a more light-hearted tone.
For example, they'll happily tell kids that Israelis shot dead Palestine kids who were throwing rocks at soldiers.
But they won't show the blood and gore that's smeared all over the streets and bodybads being carried away.
They also explain -why- the kids were throwing rocks, and why the Israeli's opened fire on them.
Totally objective.. the kids can make up their own mind on whether the Israeli's were okay on opening fire and killing them.
That's the only really scary thing that You might wonder about with kids.us - the -way- information is presented. Not -what- information per se.
That makes 6cts now...
Actually you're a bit wrong on that, you MUST be in Canada to register a .ca domain
http://www.ca/