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Plans For .xxx Domain For p0rn Scrapped

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-to-surfing-google-images dept.

William Robinson writes "ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has once again scrapped the plan for a new internet "domain" .xxx for pornography. Supporters of the .xxx address suffix argued that it would have helped to protect children and others from accidental exposure to internet pornography, particularly if stronger filters were used to screen out explicit material from other internet domains. Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year to put off introducing a new ".xxx" domain for pornography on the internet. That drew international complaints that the US exercised too much power over the internet and added to a European-backed movement to shift control of the online medium to an international group."

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  1. US is right to control the Internet by heffrey · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Didn't Al Gore invent it anyway?

    Why the heck shouldn't the US control the interweb, after all, they control everything else important in the world.....

  2. Thank you.. by stillmatic · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I would like to thank Christian fundamentalists for helping to continue to make access to pornography easy for children. Keep up the good work.

  3. Re:Trolling Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fundamentalist Christians suck.

  4. Re:V is for Veto by Opportunist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because they're loud and obnoxious, and the average Buddhist tends to be more introverted and searching for his own inner light instead of focusing on trying to force his point of view onto the rest of the world.

    --
    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  5. Re:V is for Veto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey, isn't that the same reason we pay any attention to Korea?

    And as to the Europe angle...screw you guys, we built it, get your own intehnet.

  6. Well I did hear... by DaedalusLogic · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Jesus Just Left Chicago...

    http://gracenote.com/music/search-adv.html?q=&qart ist=&qdisc=&qtrack=Jesus+Just+Left+Chicago&n=10&x= 0&y=0
    http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search.php?words=Jesu s+Just+Left+Chicago&allfields=NO&fields=track&allc ats=YES&grouping=none

  7. Conservative christians... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Should I call them idiots or hypocrites?

    Allowing xxx domains isn't different from setting a flag saying "Thou shalt not eat the fruit from this tree". I can't understand how allowing that would be "legalizing porn" as they claim. The only logical explanation behind these groups opposing the .xxx TLD is (besides idiocy or ignorance) astroturfing.

    Call me a tinfoil hat user, but I have the suspicion that this particular group of "conservative christians" is a well-paid front end for the internet porn mafia protecting their interests.

  8. Well of course... by SoulRider · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the christian right doesnt want an .xxx domain. That way when their wives catch them at www.underageboys.com they cant say "Really honey its an outreach program for disadvantaged boys, just like Big Brothers".

  9. Re:Once again, why? by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're not with the Christian Death Squads, you're with the enemy.

  10. Re:Once again, why? by NegativeOneUserID · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I've not yet seen a reason to have the .xxx domain.


    It says so right in the post. "Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US" ..... If that Evil Bush administration and the fundamentalists that back him say that it is a bad thing, that is clearly a sign of oppression.

    Why oh why are they blocking our freedom to have a .xxx domain?