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Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain
An anonymous reader writes "An application for the.xxx domain was first submitted six years ago. ICANN approved the application in 2005, and entered into an agreement with ICM Registry regarding technical and commercial terms. However, ICANN reversed its decision in March 2007. An independent review panel was called to look into why ICANN had changed its mind, and concluded that the body had been under pressure from the US government. Now the registry that submitted that application, ICM Registry, is pushing for .xxx to be approved. The company has argued that the .xxx internet domain should be approved for porn site use, allowing parents and businesses to easily configure browsers or filters to automatically block sites that carry the domain."
You obviously have NO idea how big the marijuana black market is in the US. It's not like having dogs at the airport is stopping the people who want weed from getting it.
Your analogy is actually pretty apt. Having a .xxx TLD would be as effective at preventing porn viewing as drug dogs at the airport are at stemming the flow of marijuana.
You should try going to Europe.
We got (uncovered) tits in billboard ads!
Can anyone tell me why someone wouldn't want the .xxx domain to happen? What possible downside is there to it?
RFC 3675 covers it pretty well
Besides, there's an easy way around filtering out the .xxx domain at the firewall or browser level. It's called URL shortening, and it's why I never click on bit.ly links any more.
By my understanding, tinyurl/bit.ly/etc.-style URL shorteners wouldn't do anything to stop .xxx from working. They just send back an HTTP redirect, and then your browser reissues the request (which would then be picked up by the filter).
The porn industry is saying
...nothing like what you think it's saying. Here's what the CEO of an Australian adult industry said in a letter to ICANN:
While it's fun and easy to blame stupid, uptight Americans - and even gives you a smidgin of Slashdot karma - the reality is that the people who would hypothetically be using the .xxx TLD have no interest in it and are actively opposed to it.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
After the second .xxx proposal was approved in 2005, the Family Research Council (FRC) mobilized its forces in an all-out crusade. Claiming that the creation of a .xxx TLD would allow pornographers to "expand their evil empires on the Internet," the FRC urged its supporters to express opposition to the proposal. The Department of Commerce alone received nearly 6,000 letters expressing concern on the subject. The Department of Commerce eventually requested that ICANN spend more time considering the implications of the proposal before reaching a conclusion.
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While the porn industry also opposed it for other reasons, the ones that actually caused ICANN to reverse it were the Puritanical minority.
to all religions, sexual freedom means the total loss of controlling and subjigating women.
350 million Buddhists would disagree. They would most likely content that total sexual abandon is physically and emotionally damaging, but that sex is an important part of life. Note: I am not a Buddhist.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I'm sure I'm going to lose karma for this...
Sexual response is conditionable. That's the entire basis of a fetish. As an example, let's say a young woman is told, repeatedly, over the course of her adolescence, that sex is shameful and embarrassing. She should be highly embarrassed whenever she thinks about anything sexual. She hears the word, "penis," and is mortified and ashamed. Now, since she can't separate the ideas of shame and sex, shame becomes sexy. When she gets embarrassed, she also gets aroused.
~ C.