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ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites
shmG writes with this from the International Business Times: "The company that oversees Web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead on Friday for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated on Thursday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the US government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net."
on fu.xxx
ICANN HAZ PORN?
on se.xxx
and sex.xxx
and goatse.xxx
Finally there will be porn on the internet.
Took them long enough!
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If google.xxx is what I think it would be, it could perhaps be the best website on the Internet.
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I hope this doesn't encourage would-be censors to restrict the kinds of content allowed in non-xxx domains. Not all content fits neatly into an XXX designation, and even if it did it is simply not right to restrict XXX content to XXX domains. Having an XXX domain has always struck me as either pointless (insofar as XXX content might continue to be hosted on non-XXX domains) or otherwise a really bad idea (insofar as no XXX content may be allowed outside of XXX domains).
Finally there will be porn on the internet.
Took them long enough!
Wow... mom was right, you will go blind if you play with it...
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Exactly. Who gets to define "porn"? Larry Flint? Fred Phelps? The Pope?
I believe it's defined in the context of "community standards", and then, presumably using a "I know it when I see it" test.
When .xxx becomes available, I am going to start a U-rated picture colouring website on that tld.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I always thought that if business sites were .com, then porn sites should be .cum
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I hear pedobear.kids.us has been a great success.
Oh....
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
If google.xxx is what I think it would be, it could perhaps be the best website on the Internet.
I'm pretty sure that will be 'googal.xxx'.
Very close. According to Bill Hicks, the Supreme Court defines pornography as "any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thought." "That sounds like every advertisement on TV to me."
...when it comes to sex, they think of children.
Good point. Why does google safe search have a setting that "blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results" when what I want is a setting that blocks web pages that don't contain explicit sexual content from appearing in search results!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Clearly, sex and porn is a natural curiosity that all people go through during puberty. That being said, however, there's a huge difference between sex and online pornography, namely one is natural and one is artificial. While I wouldn't necessarily worry if I caught my 12 year old son masturbating, I don't think I (or society) would react well to finding out he has a bondage-preggo-Voltaire's-angry-glove fetish at that age.
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