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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. I CLAIM IT! YOU FUCKERS ARE TOO LATE!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    goatse.kids.us

  2. Re:I CLAIM IT! YOU FUCKERS ARE TOO LATE!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    aww man i wanted that! guess i'll have to settle for hotnakedsluts.kids.us instead... :(

  3. What's allowed in the .kids.us domain? by cuyler · · Score: 1, Troll

    Will they be able to access redlobster.kids.us?

  4. Re:No international links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Well, at my library, we have 10 computers and 6 are called "Kid-safe" (filtered) and 4 are "Adults-only" (unfiltered). If a librarian sees someone under 17 using the unfiltered one, she pulls him/her off.

    I look like I'm under 17 -- would she piull me off? Would she object (or help) if she saw me pulling myself off?

  5. Re:Kids watch the news?? by Atzanteol · · Score: 2, Troll
    If your kid hunts down bondage bimbo with barb wire bra sites, guess what, your sheltering isn't working anyway, obviously he/she has handled that subject already whether you feel they are mentally prepared for it or not.
    Since when are children able to make these decisions? There are reasons parents must guide children as they grow older, and why *most* parents won't purchase biker porn for their children. Children don't yet have a concept of right and wrong, and while they are learning those concepts, they must be guided, restricted, and punished for doing wrong.

    Let children be naive for at least a little while, before adult-hood ruins it for them. Mr. Rogers (childrens program in U.S.) is much better for todlers than, say, the evening news. They don't yet have to deal with the problems of the world. Christ, they are still dealing with tying their shoes!
    --
    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  6. Re:uh, gee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    What prevents a kid-safe version of the news going up at cnn.kids.us?

    Links such as this. Who says such shenanigans won't be possible in the new cnn.kids.us domain?

  7. Re:spam.kids.us? ads are off site links too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    so they would have to disable any offsite links that are not going to *.kids.us.... and i assume that would include banner ads?

    ... and stuff such as this.

    so would there be kid-specific pop ups too?

    ... and kid-specific goatsee links too.

  8. Re:How on earth is this going to work?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Since the technology exists to isolate the upper level domain names, such as Slashdot uses to optionally show them to you in postings, it could easily be extended to totally block out the link.

    Yes, and we all know how well that works...

  9. Re:Now taking bets.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    How long will it be before www.*.kids.us becomes nothing more than a big advertisement for Nickelodeon, Disney, and Fox Kids?

    And how do they want to keep this kind of links out?

  10. Re:Don't filter at all! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Basically what this will do is let us lie to our kids. Not showing them the full truth of what's out there. Some parts of life suck, kids need to see this or once they get to those points they will self destruct.

    Fortunately, Barbie and Ken are there to tell them the truth.

  11. Re:Certifying Sites for .kids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It's probably to ease the checkers, so they don't have to check the link content, just the URL.

    Hopefully, they'll make a better job at checking the URL than Slashdot does!