ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain

stalebread writes "Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet." From the article: "In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain. The .xxx registry application has been the focus of enormous political pressure on ICANN for the past six months and was used at one point as a political football in a wider tussle for power within the internet."

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Bitch-slapped again

[Easy2RememberNick]

Great, now everyone in the World that uses the Internet has to do what right-wing Christian US politicians say is right. Again.

  Keep in mind never confuse (people of the World's) silence with acceptance.

Re:Who are they kidding?

[Just Some Guy]

but seriously, everyone's so concerned about the problem of pornography and had to limit access to it, and yet here is an attractive solution, with very little downside, and of course the fanatics are opposed.

Out of curiosity, how did you think this would solve the problem?

Let's try a little experiment: replace ".xxx" with ".abortion". A majority of Americans are against abortion, so it seems like a good idea to segregate information about it from the rest of the Internet. Now, who is more likely to be anti-.abortion - fundamentalists or pro-free-speech groups? Doesn't the second group have at least as much legitimate complaint against the idea as the first?

Since you wouldn't then paint all anti-.abortion people as fundamentalists, stop insisting that all anti-.xxx people are. Some conservatives were speaking out against the idea, sure, but I think it's despicable that more liberals weren't shouting it down as well.