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'Seven Dirty Words' Restriction Policy Lifted from .US Domain Name Registrations (circleid.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Neustar, the registry operator of the .US domain and NTIA have reversed course, allowing the inclusion of previously restricted "seven dirty words" from future .US domain name registrations. The decision came after EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School intervened in the cancelation of a domain name containing a restricted word. The domain name -- fucknazis.us -- registered by Mr. Rubin was suspended by Neustar calling it a violation of an NTIA "seven dirty words" policy -- "a phrase with particular First Amendment significance," said EFF. Further reading: EFF: Yes, You Can Name A Website "Fucknazis.us".
Which words?
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or who have never seen the George Carlin routine:
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Chaos maximizes locally around me.
As I say on all these stories ... all words are just arbitrary strings of characters that convey meaning.
And one of the meanings that offensive words carry is that of offense. The people using them are trying to give offense. These are units of communication, and that's literally what you are communicating with them.
The childish thing is not to recognize that, but to pretend that you don't recognize it.
Reads like a porn site.
Will still be banned however... as will the N word and Alexjones.us
why people want to have sex with Nazis.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Trust me. There are a number of so-called progressives on here that talk a good game but really voted for Trump.
...he muses about how guys decide they are homo? I cannot find it. One of the lines goes like "are they walking down the street one day and they just stop and turn and say 'you know Ralph, I'd really like a dick up my ass right now!"
What is that bit?
In before master.us and slave.us are taken BAHAHA.
Wouldn't want to hinder someone taking a brave stand against Nazis, some 73 years too late ...
Those little irrelevant cunts at .us are now obsolete lol.. Now that all the new TLD's are out, .us registrar will quickly be losing lots of money and hopefully go out of business.
This new 'policy' is nothing more than a desperate money grab. Glad I've never reg'd a .us . Those holier than thou twats seem to like playing morality god.
I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
Oh the fun one can have using other verbs and a .US tld though... slap.us!
This is not a school for pubescent teenagers, nor a playschool for toddlers, nor a stereotypical chest-thumping mediterranean Mafia boys setting.
How is it, that people openly say, they are "offended", and we even take them seriously?
When somebody states something bad about you, it is either wrong, or it is right.
If it is right, you have to live with it. Nobody's perfect. You can do something wrong, even have something wrong with you, but still not be wrong. If somebody says I'm fat, which, for European standards, I am, that's both true, and not a good thing. But why would I think that makes me a bad person? Yeah, I'm addicted. I might even be a junkie. I still haven't processed some major shit from my life. But I'm on it, fighting every day. I'm not bad because some fuckers did something to me, now am I? (Disclaimer: When I say major, I don't mean "somebody was mean to me"-level, like you probably assume. I mean "brainwashing Saw rape dungeon and war horrors"-level.)
And if it is wrong, I also have two choices: I can confidently treat it like the nonsense that it is, and e.g. ridicule the moron or point out how pathetic he is, if that is even necessary. Or I can react by getting all defensive, arguing to refute his arguments, and thereby award them weight in the first place, making everyone else around us think "Hmm, looks like he thinks these criticisms are so valid, that he needs to defend against them. Either they are true, or he is one insecure fuck of a loser.". And as soon as I break out the "offensive" card, they will definitely think the latter.
In any case though, words themselves cannot be "offensive". It requires it to be meant in a bad way too! ... They need it to be meant in a bad way, because that is the prejudice they have towards the world. And it conveniently gives them the upper hand, and allows them to bully other people, without being seen as the bully. Something that people who believe they are "born losers" of course eat up like flies eat shit.
And there lies the problem: When people are such insecure losers, that they actively LOOK for anything that they can "interpret" as having meant badly. It's the foundation of all of political correctness and SJW bullying.
That is what we need to cure: The general epidemic of insecure "house of cards" personalities.
And you wouldn't believe if I told you, how many cultural things solely exist because of that.
What freedumbs!
How ever will you survive your tortured existence with everyone conspiring against you? Better to just kill yourself right now before they murder-suicide you like Vince Foster! You know too much man!!
DAMN already gone!
I wonder if they will let you register fagg ot, n1 gger, h0 mo, dirtyarab, fuckqu3ers or anything like that.
I highly doubt it. So "fucknazis" is now OK, but "fuckqu3ers" probably is not. What's the difference? This all just reflects the prejudices of the people running the registrar, not some increase in freedom.
I say either be polite towards everyone, or let everyone register whatever they want. This arbitrary picking and choosing is just hypocrisy.
Note I was intially rejected by Slashdot and had to modify my "taboo words".
Years ago and with less scrutiny in the process, I registered a .com domain with two of the seven plus one that would be offensive to a fair number of religious people. Now I am a little too old to use it as an email address, but it is still fun to have.
Two dirty words ('fuck', and 'nazis') are 2 negatives that make a positive. Seems legit to me.
sigo ergo sum
The real question is this: can Scunthorpe handle the resulting tourism boom?
Found the triggered socialist!
trumpfucked.us
Can you register fuckjews.us though?
yes. you can name a website fucknazis.yes ;[