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Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the subject-they're-familiar-with dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's an election year again, and the usual PR causes are being picked up. Senators are once again pushing for a .XXX top-level domain to 'corral pornography'." From the article: "The bill suggests, but does not require, that .xxx serve as the domain name ending. Any commercial Internet site or online service that "has as its principal or primary business the making available of material that is harmful to minors" would be required to move its site to that domain. Failure to comply with those requirements would result in civil penalties as determined by the Commerce Department. It's unclear whether the measure will go very far. First of all, it could be struck down as unconstitutional, said Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "

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  1. OK, I knew they were pervs.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But openly calling for porn?

    What will their wives say? (And you can leave Barney Frank out of that - his "friend" pimped a gay sex ring right out of the Senator's apartment...)

  2. Re:pron.awesome by jrockway · · Score: 5, Funny

    ??It'd be like a MySpace, but obscene!.

    A true programmer. :) You use the ! so that it's scoped to the word "obscene" and thus (mentally) need the . to actually finish the sentence. I often write things like: `` He said, "This is a sentence.". '' with the `.".' construction -- the first period ends the quoted sentence and the second ends the complete unit. Grammar nazis dislike this, but it makes sense to people who think like programmers. Glad to see I'm not the only one :)

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  3. "harmful to minors" by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    In accordance with megan's law, CmdrTaco.net has been renamed to CmdrTaco.xxx

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  4. Re:pron.awesome by aichpvee · · Score: 5, Funny
    Any commercial Internet site or online service that "has as its principal or primary business the making available of material that is harmful to minors" would be required to move its site to that domain.

    So focus on the family is going to move to family.xxx and the discovery institute is going to have to use discovery.xxx? Sounds like a plan!

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  5. Re:inconstitutional? WTF? by JambisJubilee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Inconstitutional? That's unpossible!