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Top Level .xxx Domain Concept Under Scrutiny
An anonymous reader writes "The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography. This is despite the the .xxx domain being approved in June and New.net selling domain names using the .xxx suffix for many months before the approval." From the ZDNet article: " The sudden high-level interest in what has historically been an obscure process has placed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an uncomfortable position. ICANN approved the concept of an .xxx domain in June and approval of ICM Registry's contract to run the suffix was expected this week Other governments also have been applying pressure to ICANN in a last-minute bid to head off .xxx. A letter from ICANN's government advisory group sent Friday asks for a halt to 'allow time for additional governmental and public policy concerns to be expressed before reaching a final decision.'"
Why don't they just chop it off? Sorry, but porn has it's place in our society and it shouldn't be back alleys and raincoated weirdos. Of course it shouldn't be the neighborhood minimalls either. If anyone ever bans porn in America, I'm going to find them and beat them about the head with a sack of bricks.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Whitehousecom is still up and running!
Do you think your child should be able to see tasteful nudity?
No. Next question?
There is no tasteful nudity in my opinion. It's offensive to all parties involved