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.xxx Domain Remains in Limbo
datemenatalie writes "CNN.com reports that the Inernet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is still awaiting the decision of an advisory committee regarding .xxx domains. According to the article, "ICANN announced in June it would move ahead with plans to evaluate establishing a sex-site domain, but the proposal hit a snag in August when the U.S. Commerce Department asked for more time to hear objections." ICANN's president Paul Tworney was unable to say when a formal decision might be announced."
General Franco STILL DEAD!
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Does this mean I CANN't look at porn anymore???
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really 867993
Karma schkarma
How low can it go!?
Slashdot.xxx only for articles on device dissections like Xboxes and PSP with the cover off. Maybee even Source code... how sexy.
Get rid of that fscking stuff... Because you should just get your own anyway.
Give it to the people or we'll riot to get it!
That is, if we can actually define porn. Beach pics? Lingerie ads? A hand, 6" one way or the other, is the line between porn, and sales.
Reminds me of the great late Bill Hicks... "The US Supreme Court defines 'pornography' as 'any act without artistic merit that causes sexual thougths'. Mmmm... sounds like every God damned commercial on TV these days to me!"
Making the general internet purely a kid friendly zone would help with many concerns parents have, but I do not believe it is going to happen. What is the likelyhood that the bad people who share unlawful or illegally copied pornography will all switch over to the xxx domain? The only real reason I see in this is to protect children from accidentally stumbling across bad things.
.xxx domain (as if you needed one), but nothing will change in the .com world. People who want too will still view porn. People who don't will still complain.
.xxx domain, we should be generating a database of "acceptable and non-questionable" stable websites that would be acceptable for general viewing. Then educate parents on how too set up firewalls to keep their minor children away from the stuff. Next we can encourage parents to spend enough time with their children they will feel confident in their childs choice in the matter.
What's my prediction if this ever gets passed you asked? You will have an easier way of finding porn for sale by searching with the
In my opinion instead of pushing the
All these folks up in arms about their children possibly seeing even slightly "objectionable" material would most likely be best locking their children in a closet. Don't let them near a computer, let alone a computer hooked up to the Internet. Don't let them near a television. Don't let them visit the local video shoppe. Don't let them visit the library (there may be medical texts there showing penises, vaginas and anuses!). Don't even let them go to school, as little Jimmy might bring in the Hustler he found in his daddy's sock drawer.
If they were to keep their children locked up in the dark all the time, then they would never accidentally encounter anything objectionable.
Meanwhile, the rest of us could continue to enjoy freedom of expression.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
...the .co.ck domain name. Really... http://www.google.co.ck/ I couldn't make it up if I tried.
to register goatse.xxx?
I thought being "in limbo" was on it's way out?
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Of course we (as USians - heeh ) don't bear the onus for the behavior of our forefathers. But for us, that's not much help; we still have to tote the barge of our own continued behavior, both in the world arena, and the continued mistreatment of Native Americans.
:D
And you can't really blame the Brits for their Empiricism - they conquered the world looking for a country with decent restaurants...
Thinking outside my Head
I'm blown away by the submitter's website
XHTML strict? Ok, I guess that's a good habit but how did you come to the conclusion that you need seperate(sp?) style sheets for screen and print?
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And now I'm stuck wondering why I wanted to see the source in the first place :(
Think of someone with average intelligence. Now think 1/2 the world is dumber than that guy.
"I disapprove of what you f*ck, but I will defend to the death your right to post pictures of you f*cking it."
"Vidi, veni" - Caesar
There are some good Sex Museums out there... like the one in Amsterdam. Would it go under museum.xxx or xxx.museum ?
Just wondering?
I'm not quite sure how adding two 'x's to goatse.cx actually helps anything.
I think it's about time we're able to know that only one TLD on the Internet will contain Vin Diesel content.
-- Of course I'm paranoid. I'm a sysadmin.