Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others
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Qedward writes "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ranging from .porn and .sexy to .wine and .bar and .bible, according to records of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The organisation said in June it had received 1930 applications for gTLD 'strings,' of which 911 came from North America and 675 from Europe. Saudi Arabia's Communication and Information Technology Commission, the IT and communications regulator, has objected to the .gay string and asked ICANN to refuse the application for the new gTLD. 'Many societies and cultures consider homosexuality to be contrary to their culture, morality or religion,' CITC said. 'The creation of a gTLD string which promotes homosexuality will be offensive to these societies and cultures,' it added."
List of the Current gTLD Applications (Score:3, Informative)
why modded funny, not all youth dancing is dirty (Score:3, Informative)
Because "Saudi Party Boys" *sounds* like it might be the name of a gay porno flick.
"Bachi Boy parties" sounds like a children's-entertainment company specializing in hosting bocce ball birthday parties.
Oh, thanks to the recent military involvement in that part of the world, most Americans who watch the news are aware of "Bachi Boys" in Afghanistan and the political trouble American military and civilian personnel get into back home if they appear to endorse the sexual and quasi-sexual (e.g. erotic dancing) exploitation of under-18 males or tolerate it if they are in a position to stop it.
I will point out that there is a continuum between children dancing as a skill in a non-sexual way and dancing for the purposes of erotic arousal. You see the former in the United States in events like Ballet Folklorico, children's dance theaters, and similar programs for youth. However, some of the dances they do could, if done by an adult with a slight exaggeration of certain moves, be considered sexually provocative and would be more appropriate for a night club or other adults-only venue. While some "Bachi Boys" are clearly exploited outright as prostitutes, and others are exploited or at least "given an opportunity" to dance in a way that most Americans would call "Adult entertainment" I'm sure many of the youth and child dancers in that part of the world entertain in ways that are more akin to the dances that trained American children and youth do to entertain adults.
Re:men having sex with men IS a different matter (Score:4, Informative)
I have personally seen large buildings where under-age kids were censoring foreign printed publications before distribution.
A rather shabby piece of cleric would first investigate the magazines and newspapers and specify what needed to be cut out.
These examples were then hung on the wall and the kids went to work, no damage to them when they had to handle all these photo's of insufficiently dressed people because they were of the age of innocence.
A brochure for expensive yachts and boats was nearly the worst victim, on virtually all photo's there were people in states of undress so in the end there would be little left of the magazine if not for the fact that the importer of the yachts paid extra to have the kids use sharpies to paint clothes on the bikini babes and yacht men in shorts.
A sick society.