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"N-word".com Owned by NAACP

Posted by Roblimo on from the it-makes-sense-when-you-think-about-it dept.

A friend of mine who works for the NAACP (and doesn't want his name used here) sent me this Wired News story about a sad but necessary move his employers have made. It seems that the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and other groups that fight against racial hatred have been quietly registering as many offensive domain names they can get their hands on so that hate groups can't use them. It's sad that civil rights groups have to do this, but (sigh) I suppose it's better than having the government censor domain names.

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  1. Squating? by Thomas+Charron · · Score: 5

    Now wait a second.. It's NOT ok for a company to squat on a name for money, but it's OK for someone else to squat on a name becouse they consider them offensive?

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    -- I'm the root of all that's evil, but you can call me cookie..
    1. Re:Squating? by warpeightbot · · Score: 5

      OK, enough already!!

      The NAACP has nigger.com. Some professional domain-squatting outfit in Oklahoma has honky.com. Some other outfit has clintonsucks.com. Yet another has republicanssuck.com. This is WAY out of hand.

      A modest proposal.

      ONE DOMAIN PER ORGANIZATION. Period. If you happen to be a holding company, then each of your held incorporations can have one. ONE. GM gets eight. One for the six divisions, one for Saturn, one for GMAC. Ford gets four. Ford, Lincoln, Merc, and Ford Motor Credit. Little old me can have exactly ONE as an induhvidual unless I bother to incorporate.

      Sure, Sony can go form gazillions of dummy corporations for thismovie.com and thatmovie.com, but at least it slows it down, and it puts a stop to these idiots making a zillion bucks off the namespace with a random word generator and a bunch of $70 checks to No Solutions Inc.

      One to a customer. Is it so hard?

      (I know I'm going to get flamed to hell, and probably shoot my karma in the foot to boot, but it needs to be said. Besides, who else has the 'nads to actually say "nigger" in here where the PC types get scared off by the Real Truth?)

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      "The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you that we must hate that which is different.... and that hate will destroy you." -- Rev. Dexter, preaching on Babylon 5

  2. This kinda bothers me... by Anthos · · Score: 5

    As a young black male, living in the US, to be called a "nigger" by anyone is an affront to me as a human being. I look at the NAACP, and I can see the good the hope to achieve from their actions, but as a believer in the liberty of man's conscience to choose, I am quite disturbed by their purchasing of domain names which they believe promote hate groups.

    Unfortunately, this doesn't seem quite all right. I am not saying that we should all run around killing those who don't adhere to the God or gods we worship, who don't listen to the music we listen, or don't have the skin that we have, but the problem of hate cannot be stopped by buying domain names. I'm sure the NAACP knows that. So why waste their time on DNs, when the most important thing that can be used to stifle the proliferation of hate is unity, knowledge, and that overabused four letter word called LOVE. Not only love, but Brotherly Love. I hope one day, each individual will be able to completely say that they have no prejudice, no disdain, no hate for their fellow man. I'm not saying that we must agree with all things. I don't agree with racism or homosexuality religion, but I still love those who espouse ethnic racism (hopefully, they'll see that hate consumes) and my friends that are gay or bisexual.

    That's all I have to say. IT might not have been the most insightful piece I've written, but out of my jumbled, hodge-podge heart, these are the feelings that are coming through

    -"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him" - Luke 17:3