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Plans For .xxx Domain For p0rn Scrapped
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."
filter all .xxx domains..... done.
There is no way short of regulating it to make sure porn stays in the .xxx domain. And then it gets back to, "What qualifies as porn?"
.xxx domain sure as hell hasn't slowed down the growth of pornography on the web. Anyone who can't find any porn they want is just stupid. As for the please think of the children pleas, that will never stop. After porn is segmented and moved away and there's nary a tit on .com, .net or .org, then they'll move on to something else. Violent flash animations maybe. Something. Those people have existed and will always exist -- think Tipper Gore and her bored Congresscritter Housewives club -- and the internet didn't start it.
.xxx. Like that it's stupid. All that will happen is current porn sites will also buy a .xxx and ICANN will make a fortune as companies have to buy yet another domain name to make sure they own their domain name with every TLD.
Not having a
I love how you blame it on religious people in the government. Some of us have other objections to