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XXX Goes Live In the Root Servers
An anonymous reader writes that yesterday "IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already been taking pre-registrations, the actual timeline for the launch has not yet been published."
Yeah, I'm going to pay for a domain that will be blocked in 90% of the world...
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
Except now we're going to see arguments that all adult sites should move to .xxx domains.
I hope that idea will be a straight up non-starter and stay that way.
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What is porn? Who gets to decide the answer to that question? Will all sites covering beach volleyball have to move to .xxx? What about a site which includes instructions for how to put on a condom? How about Victoria Secrets or Sports Illustrated? How about english tabloids which feature "Page 3"?
Let's imagine for a moment you said all those need not be forced onto .xxx, should Playboy be forced on and treated the same in this regard as donkeyrapingshiteaters.com (no idea or interest if that exists or would be legal in any juristiction, just don't complain to me if you go check and throw up)?
Should anyone wanting access to IPs which serve any content hosted on .xxx be forced to opt in and register themselves with their ISP? Should the ISP have to verify that any access to a .xxx site is by someone over an age determined by their local laws (and they are not on any lists banning them from such access)?
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Are we also going to force all COMpanies out of .org and .net? Really, the only "protected" domain that does what it was intended is .EDU, and there have been some that have been allowed that should really be .COM.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
there should be a term for it, because i see this fallacy a lot. "reducto ad grey area"?
anyway, the point is simple: because a grey area exists does not mean we can't define black and white. people are always saying "ooh! ooh! look! a grey area! therefore there is no black and white, good and evil, right and wrong" etc. this is some lame loser teenager bullshit in your thinking
a site that instructs women how to inspect their breasts in the shower for lumps/ breast cancer is NOT pornography
a site that shows a woman being penetrated by two guys and giving a blowjob to a horse IS pornography
and in between exists a grey area, yes. so what?
the existence of that grey area does not nullify or change the fact that black and white are real, nor does it argue anyone should try to stop classifying pornography as pornography. pornography is real, pornography can be defined. the existence of grey areas doesn't change that. got it?
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This is one of the few "wall of text" posts that I've clicked "read the rest of this comment" to. I suggest everyone else do that same as well, as this is definitely the most informative/insightful post listed here, and I wish they had a hard-to-achieve +6 in the Slashdot system so this would be the most apparent, because it would deserve it.
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a big +1
This comment should be at the top of the thread.
Damn Slashdot for having such a lame moderation system.