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Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral
An anonymous reader writes, "The Irish domain prefix, .ie, is controlled by an organization called the IE Domain Registry. In their terms and conditions they state, 'The proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality.' But this policy is only applied to sex words as this adult webmaster has discovered. Murder.ie is acceptable, Porn.ie is not. Can a word be immoral? And in this day and age, should a government-chosen domain registry be allowed to enforce their own moral code on the public?"
juden-raus == Jews Out! From the Nazi era, and also a board game - of equal value.
We are talking about the country where reading Playboy was illegal only a few years ago, check out the wikipedia page for the whole censoring frenzy.
That country would have been the United Kingdom (specifically, Northern Ireland), not the Republic of Ireland. And even there, they stopped a while ago. You're wrong in both time and space.
Northern Ireland is a part of Ireland taken by force and still held by a foreign power and most of the IRA's activites were funded by robbing banks in the South.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
.US bans various domains too for similar reasons, such as FuckCensorship.US
r ship.us&TYPE=DOMAIN
For the timebeing, along with others, it's in perpetual limbo:
http://www.whois.us/whois.cgi?TLD=us&dn=fuckcenso
Ron
I believe it makes them wrong but then I live here. Things have improved of late. I've noticed around the college I'm studying at now that safe sex is promoted heavily - even more than last year. I think there's been a realisation that promoting safe sex isn't promoting casual sex. I know when I'm looking at that chlamidya poster in the toilets I don't care if I never get laid again (althought that soon passes)
As for the
In summary, is Ireland a conservative, moralistic hellhole? Yes, but it's getting better. We no longer export pregnant teens and force them to surrender their children for adoption!
They're simply more conservative over there; I don't believe that makes them wrong (or right, for that matter).
My dear man what are you talking about?! I'm from Ireland and you have not been here in a while if that's what ya think!
Also compared to the US (I'm guessing your american - forgive me if your not) I think calling Ireland conservative is comical! FOX NEWS anyone?!
Ireland has come out of a more conservative age and in the past 15 years has improved leaps and bounds regarding this kind of thing. Every now and again there are legislation that is a hangover from more our more conservative past. It doesn't reflect our current mindset, instead it reflects a mindset of the past. So please refrain from sweeping statements like above!
You can onl register a personal domain with your initials and two digits after that eg JohnSMith can get js01.ie and he you have to demonstrate a "Real and Substantive Connection" to Ireland. After that companies with Irish links, state agencies, schools and politicians (and a few more categories) can register a domain. So this ban will only affect those who managed to register a company or trademark with an "offensive" name or try to make use of the "Discretionary Name" category. Look here for more details: http://www.domainregistry.ie/RegistrationPolicy.ph p
I visited Ireland for the first time about 5 years ago and I was blown away by how modern it is, both in infrastructure and attitude. Really a great country, friendly people, nice climate (it was sunny the entire time), high tech industry. Can't say enough nice stuff about you folks.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
If the sets are the same, one cannot be a proper subset or superset of the other.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
"Schnell!" is the german word for please.
No, that'll be "bitte". Schnell is the German word for quickly
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One stands for danger; the other for opportunity
but horn.ie will do
That would be the Irish domain suffix.
A prefix would come before the domain.
Bring back Sirius Punk!
I don't think it has anything to do with conservativism.
In the US the Bill of Rights guarantees that 'Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech'.
In Ireland, the Constitution says that 'The State guarantees liberty for [The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions], subject to public order and morality.'
I doubt the authors of the Bill of Rights would have found the wording of Bunreacht na hEireann particularly restrictive. In fact I think they might have included the bit about public order and morality if they thought it was necessary.
And if you think Ireland is conservative - you need to come here...
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