Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains 127
Hugh Pickens writes "The Associated Press reports that the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has deferred a decision until June on whether to create a '.xxx' Internet suffix as an online red-light district, beginning a 70-day process of consultations on a domain that could help parents block access to adult sites. ICM Registry LLC first proposed the '.xxx' domain in 2000, and ICANN has rejected it three times already since then, but an outside panel last month questioned the board's latest rejection in 2007, prompting the board to reopen the bid. Backers of '.xxx' have billed the proposal as a way for the adult-entertainment industry to clean up its act, though some adult sites worry that governments would wind up mandating the use of '.xxx' and that sites with the '.xxx' suffix could easily be blocked by government web filters in the future. 'I am very concerned and fearful of censoring adult material that should be made available for adults. It scares the hell out of me,' says Malcolm Day, head of AdultShop.com, adding that if adult websites weren't allowed to have '.com' domains and could only register under the '.xxx' address, then 'many governments (across the world) would try to block them.'"
Exactly backwards (Score:5, Insightful)
People who want a "kid-safe" Internet should create a G-rated TLD for their material and block everything else. Having an adult-only TLD is just asking for trouble. I am reminded of the effort in the 80's spearheaded by Tipper Gore to label record albums. It started with profanity and sex, and before long, they we're trying to put "occult" warnings on anything that deviated from (their version of) orthodox Christianity. Ghettoization always leads to extermination.
It's high time we called out the censors for using children as human shields.
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It certainly is a better idea than those stupid
The fact that the ICANN approves crap like
Note: I am still a bit sore with the ICANN since they ignored my proposal years ago to reserve a
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Actually if you are running your own DNS server on your intranet you can use whatever TLD you want, so as long as they don't approve the plan of letting large company register their own TLD anything non in the standard ICANN naming system would be considered a private TLD.
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You then need to spend resources to migrate your stuff to a new domain. All because the ICANN isn't doing a good job.
In my eyes the ICANN are a parasite. They allowed crap like domain front running and tasting.
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Why should it be considered OK that everyone have to pay a few bucks extra/year and put up with unnecessary crappiness just because of ICANN?
And have you even tried to register a short non-totally nonsensical domain recently?
How much does it cost ICANN to just reserve one or two TLDs for everyone's private use?
I know it does make th
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What would be X-rated and what would be G-rated?
Everybody has a different idea about what these ratings mean, and in what context.
Some people would find a picture of a woman breastfeeding to be educational, others would say it is obscene.
And I guess there would also be a "Great Firewall of the USA", because the ROW wouldn't bother following along.
Even the stupidity of the Apple store, which required applications containing images of people wearing bikini's to be rated NC-17, containing explicit nudity, whil
Re:Exactly backwards (Score:4, Insightful)
The answer is to make the kid-friendly domain a .kids.us domain
Then anything that is considered "G rated" by the US (i.e. what would be G or safe for kids if rated by the MPAA, ESRB or TV ratings people) would be allowed.
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Mod parent up ! This is exactly the right way to go about it: each country has its own rules about what is suitable for children, and not just in terms of nudity. Many places have laws regarding advertising for children, profanity, drug and alcohol use, and so on, and these are so varied it would be impractical to choose a set of rules which are suitable even just between the Western nations, let alone the rest of the world.
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I like the idea to create a kid friendly TLD. How about .kid? It would make the net nannying a lot easier.
Re:Exactly backwards (Score:5, Insightful)
What happens when someone puts sex-ed info on a web site in the .kid domain, and American Puritan Society objects? Or someone creates www.heatherhastwomommies.kid and the anti-homosexual lobby cries foul? Who decides whether it's OK?
If people want to create a walled garden online for their kids to play in, and use software to keep them there, I'm perfectly supportive of that. But the top level of the domain hierarchy is the wrong place to do that. Do it at the second level. Let private independent agencies or communities or whatever create walledgarden.org or keepmybabysafe.com or ohlookabutterfly.net, let them manage the content there according to their own standards, and let parents choose to use any of these sites (or none) to entertain their children. Restricting one's children to *.walledgarden.org is no more difficult than restricting them to *.kid. And meanwhile, the rest of us, who are not children, are free to use an internet that doesn't make decisions about content for us.
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You make an interesting point... but wouldn't that raise quite a few technical issues? I can think of the following:
I'm no expert in this domain, so I expect the list is much longer. Any authorities care to jump in?
Re:Exactly backwards (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, having part of the hierarchy solely for kids would be a great idea, but not for the obvious reasons.
You should allocate kids.us (if you yanks are so worried about it, that's where it belongs, the rest of the world doesn't give a damn about it) for such content.
Then you could create penalties for posting "indecent" material into this subtree of DNS. Since we're talking about DNS, the penalties should go to the owner of the DNS domain. The meaning of "indecent" is irrelevant and can be anything (you'll see as I present my reasoning).
Now, when someone comes trying to do censorship "for the children", you can just point that there's a perfectly child-safe domain protected by laws, with very harsh penalties for not respecting its intended purpose. All of that would be true.
However, if you've had read the literature [rfc-archive.org] you'd know that making such guarantee is impossible. Therefore no sane person would get a subdomain of "kids.us". However any busybodies can be easily told they should stop complaining and use the tools given to them (after all, the subdomain would indeed be protected by laws, and they should really be enforced). If they balk at the prospect of having such punishments applied to them, telling them that they are obviously not that interested in the children and are clearly hypocrites (maybe they would be tempted to put something "indecent"? or maybe they just talk but aren't trully willing to take the responsibility to make a clean web for the future generations, blah, blah).
In the end, only extremists will be willing to get .kids.us domains, no sane people would be even interacting with that thing, parents would get to choose if they let their kids out of the walled garden (and if they fail to do so, when they wanted, then they're irresponsable parents), and everybody else gets to browse porn without being distracted by the think-of-the-children crowd.
I even have a slogan for the domain: "kids.us, the clean place for kids that sucks".
The most that can happen is that a few extremists get punished (or whatever) when the sites are inevitably hacked.
Problem solved.
Re:Exactly backwards (Score:4, Insightful)
I completely agree with all the problems you cite for a .kids type domain, and I completely agree the correct thing to do would be for people to use second level walledgarden.org type domains. However the world sucks, stupid people routinely demand idiotic and destructive things, and politicians all too often give it to them.
So while I agree with everything you say, I support a .kids type domain to the extent that it can be used to siphon off these people and their bad ideas. It provides an outlet where these people can satisfy their crusade-compulsion and they can play out their bad ideas. A place where they can fight with each other over all of the problems you list, a place they can do all the dumb things they like and cause all the damage they wish, all within a contained area. All without causing any harm or damage outside their pointless harmless .kids domain.
You're right the correct thing for them to do is just apply for a routine second level domain where they can do whatever they like, but obviously they already can do that, and obviously they are not going to be satisfied with that. These activists don't actually want to set up some kid-safe area, they don't actually want to do anything themselves, they are fighting to make the do something. They don't want to solve their problem, they want the government to solve it for them. And their "problem" isn't that they don't like what they are accessing on the internet, their problem is that they don't like what other people can find on the internet. They don't want something fixed for themselves, they are crusaders who want to forcibly impose their "help" upon everyone else. They are fanatically "helpful" people who want to run around forcibly applying leaches to everyone in order to prevent fictional diseases.
I say a bad idea such as a .kids domain might be a useful idea if it gives these destructively-helpful people the illusion that they are successfully helping their intended victims.... err I mean helping their intended beneficiaries.
Now I admit that it may lead to a problem with these people making demands that schools and libraries have some sort of mandatory filter restricted to the .kids domain. And yes, I acknowledge that some children (and adults) may become victims of that sort of idiocy. However I believe that attempting to impose that sort of filter would be completely unworkable and it would be an almost instantaneous blatant failure. I believe it would result in far less harm than their current efforts to impose upon students some ideological-candyland version of the full internet.
Hell, in an ideal world I would fully support a .xxx domain. In theory it's a great idea. Let porn sites or anyone else grab a .xxx domain if they like, cool. The only reason I don't support it is because in the real world idiots view .xxx as some sort of "fix" for their "problem", and then they obviously expect that "fix" to actually work for solving their problem. They expect "bad" stuff is supposed to be in the .xxx domain, and only within the .xxx domain. So they expect laws to make that true, they expect laws to force things to actually work the way they want and expect them to work. They start demanding stupid destructive and unworkable laws to imprison anyone who puts "objectionable" material on a normal general website. And then all of the problems you list in your post become a catastrophic plague upon the internet itself.
The only problem with your post is that you offered a reasonable rational solution. You often can't fix an unreasonable irrational fanatical people-problem with a reasonable rational fix.
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A kid friendly TLD is another way of saying pedophile friendly TLD.
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Yes, the same way of saying preschool is pedophile smorgasbord.
Wanna think that over again? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Why not replace the server name? Make all kid friendly sites kid.abc.org, as a replacement for www.abc.org. No change to anything needed, just cooperation. Some people have complained about linking; I always thought hosting a www server implied permission to link. If you don't want to be part of the "web" call yourself something else and I will agree not to link. Make it "kid" for linking appropriate content. Social contract instead of government intrusion; the web gods can handle infractions.
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People who want a "kid-safe" internet could insist in embedded ratings. Some HTML tag with "xxx, violence" or whatever else they want to put in. Easy to block. Easy to implement. And people don't have to worry about domain squatters trying to register slashdot.xxx to shake down established sites.
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How, exactly, would you enforce the requirement to embed ratings? There are already such systems in existence, but for reasons that I wish were obvious, they cannot be enforced.... any more than a segregation of "adult" material into a separate domain.
Re:Exactly backwards (Score:4, Insightful)
The same way you enforce adult sites to go to xxx - you don't. Embedded ratings could only be "opt-in" - just like most standards on the net. Just like .xxx would be. Anything else would just be too hard to enforce.
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no different then the "enter date of birth" or "warning, naked titties beyond this point" front pages.
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That's the gayest idea I've ever heard.
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People who want a "kid-safe" internet could insist in embedded ratings. Some HTML tag with "xxx, violence" or whatever else they want to put in. Easy to block. Easy to implement. And people don't have to worry about domain squatters trying to register slashdot.xxx to shake down established sites.
Sadly, this used to exist and W3 eliminated it, but I'm not sure why.
PICS [w3.org] was first. Then came POWDER [w3.org]. Then both were dropped. I haven't found a replacement for either.
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POWDER became a W3C recommendation as of 9th of September last year. try reading your own link!
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Lets say I have a website in some socially-liberal country with no requirement to use these labels. Now lets say it has some pictures which you find obscene on it, say photos from a topless beach or the like.
My local community wouldn't think that was obscene (after all, they allowed the beach in the first place), so they aren't going to make me put the adult tags on it, and likely as not, I wouldn't have any personal reason to bother to put them there either. Now what are you going to do? Marking only adult
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Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:3, Insightful)
I dont get this kind of thinking. Creating a toplevel domain surely would make it easier for people to find the porn they're looking for. Nothing less, nothing more
But BANNING domains on that note, would as far as I can see only lead to the downfall of the toplevel domain, as porn providers would stop using it as it's not good business.
And in any event, I dont really see the currently invested xxx providers as being willing to give up their lucrative .com or .org domains. So at most we'll get another toplevel domain that you need to register to "own" your own brand. Anyone for slashdot.xxx ?
Re:Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:4, Funny)
Anyone for slashdot.xxx ?
Not a bad idea, we could use it to have nude pictures of slashdotters.
Re:Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:5, Funny)
Won't work for me. I don't have a wide aspect screen yet.
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How did you know my dick was huge?
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Duh (Score:2, Funny)
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Anyone for slashdot.xxx ? Not a bad idea, we could use it to have nude pictures of slashdotters.
I thought that's what chatroullette was for
Re:Top level domains wont make for less pron (Score:4, Insightful)
But BANNING domains on that note, would as far as I can see only lead to the downfall of the toplevel domain, as porn providers would stop using it as it's not good business.
Until countries make laws requiring "all websites with adult content in them are required to register under the
Ever go to Amazon? Amazon sells adult videos. They also list a wide variety of sex toys, vibrators, etc that many people object to. Amazon doesn't sell this directly, but they do sell it through another company that lists on Amazon. Does that make Amazon belong under .xxx? Should the stuff that some people don't like be moved to a special amazon.xxx?
Creating the domain is but one step in the process of segregating the internet into various categories. Once you require everything to be in neat little categories you can start to control access to those categories, track them, etc. More insidious is creating these dividing lines is an attempt to make adult products which are already mainstream and have been for at least 40 years if not more into something not mainstream.
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I whole heartedly agree with your assumption.
IF the internet (mind it IS international in nature, and heavily affected by cost driving factors, same as any other services) should ever "grow up" and force people to give up sex.com, whitehouse.com, etc. then Absolutely, you're right. But with so many domains under each toplevel domain, how do you decide who gets "sex.xxx" ? Is it the guy who owns sex.com, sex.org, or the majority of "sex.country_identifier" domains ?
I just dont see a plausible scenario for th
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I whole heartedly agree with your assumption.
IF the internet (mind it IS international in nature, and heavily affected by cost driving factors, same as any other services) should ever "grow up" and force people to give up sex.com, whitehouse.com, etc. then Absolutely, you're right. But with so many domains under each toplevel domain, how do you decide who gets "sex.xxx" ? Is it the guy who owns sex.com, sex.org, or the majority of "sex.country_identifier" domains ?
I just dont see a plausible scenario for this type of transition, certainly not with the current structure, ownership and division of the internet, internet names, trademarks, copyrights etc.
Well, they should not just stop at the .xxx TLD. They should do subdomains, so sex.com gets sex.com.xxx, etc. Then as a transition, allow sex.com to redirect to sex.com.xxx. Let the porn sites keep their domains, but they can not host any porn on them.
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What happens if you happen to have adult content but it's not the primary focus of the site?
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I just dont see a plausible scenario for this type of transition, certainly not with the current structure, ownership and division of the internet, internet names, trademarks, copyrights etc. As you mention yourself, this is or will be an international endeavour. And getting the current 174 countries (or there abouts) to agree on simple stuff like national borders, official languages etc. has taken the better part of 10.000 years
Why would you have to get ALL 174 countries to agree? Sure, the internet is in
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Why would you have to get ALL 174 countries to agree? Sure, the internet is international, but having a presence in a country isn't. You think Amazon is just going to pull up stakes and move to Canada just so they can sell some dildos? Often times having a physical presence is a country makes you subject to the laws in that country. The point being that the way commerce and business work are far more involved than just looking at the laws of any particular country. I'm betting if only a few key countries passed such laws, it wouldn't really matter than the other 160 didn't have them
Obviously, it's the other way around. If only a few countries pass laws that says that vertain content has to be in certain top level domain names, then presumably, a large provider, like say, amazon would move their domain registration to a country where they can avoid problems with having to move around.
Case in point: Assume that in country A, it's illegal to watch people ride a bicycle, or to provide any such amusement to the citizens of the country. Me, being in country B, cannot be prosecuted for said
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The internet was designed to be segregated into different categories. Com = commercial, org = non-proft, gov = government, edu = educational. The problem is that the TLDs controlled by the US exercised no control over assignments to those domains, .com became a buzzword, and everyone grabbed for a .com, even if their content was better suited to another TLD.
In Australia, you have to have an ABN (Australian Business Number) to register a .com.au (it's not hard to get one, takes one phone call). You need to b
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Do sex toys even belong under .xxx? If a vibrator is put into an ordinary rubber ducky, does that make it ban-able?
Only half a solution (Score:2)
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And who, exactly, would determine what is "obscene"?
(I'd offer to do it, but I'm a bit busy.)
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I'd do it, but I'm already too busy reviewing the evidence.
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With
Re:Only half a solution (Score:4, Interesting)
> With .xxx, expect it to become opt-in. And then people know you watch porn. They have it in written form. This would be even worse if you had to apply for accessing specific .xxx pages.
Well someone would simply start proxxxy.com... I think there is a fortune to be made there.
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They're way ahead of us.
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It does plenty of good, if you create a .xxx TLD and a .kid TLD. You can be *reasonably* assured of the content of sites using those TLDs. Now I don't expect that a site that has a majority of adult content to be forced to register a .com domain for those pages that contain absolutely no adult material, nor would I expect them to be forced to register a .xxx TLD, but being on .kid wouldn't be appropriate. .xxx -> almost guaranteed adult material .kid -> reasonably child safe .com/.net/.org -> Any
This Whole Debate Is Lasting Longer Than '4 Hours' (Score:4, Insightful)
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Uh oh, you've figured out how the government works. Some men in black suits will be by shortly to dispatch you.
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Shit or get off the pot, guys. Either way a lot of people won't be happy.
You got some weird fetish, man... May I suggest a .crp domain for that?
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Re:This Whole Debate Is Lasting Longer Than '4 Hou (Score:2)
It's also possible that they are required by their bylaws to consider such proposals for a certain number of days before deciding. I really can't imagine they will hear any new arguments they haven't heard before.
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It's worse than not doing it. It's not doing it, but then lying about making the decision to not do it.
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In my opinion, they're just giving a fair and thorough consideration of every bit of information given to them... before they say No a fourth time, hopefully.
They will make decisions... (Score:2)
Clearly they are afraid to make a decision which is in and of itself a decision
No, ICANN is willing to make decisions. They just aren't willing to make decisions that make any fucking sense. They have already decided some time ago to start selling TLDs outright, which will inevitably result in .xxx being sold outright to someone if they don't establish it first. And being as it would make sense for them to establish it first so that they could make some small revenue from it, they will instead continue to table the issue until someone else sells it and it no longer matters.
Somet
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Or as Pert, Lifeson, and Lee put it: "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
The whole block/filter argument. (Score:3, Interesting)
It's already very easy to block adult sites. This is pointless to mention and the real issue is not how easy it is to block these sites but that censorship in general is never a good idea, no matter how easy or hard it is.
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No shit? (Score:1)
Unfounded worry (Score:2)
I'm not speaking out against porn, just trying to think logically. Porn doesn't bother me much. I'd rather some potential sex offender spend all his time looking at porn then go out and rape some poor woman.
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"It seems to me that a government could not legally block the TLD unless porn was actually illegal in that country."
You do realize that in most countries it's the government which creates the laws making things illegal?
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It seems to me that a government could not legally block the TLD unless porn was actually illegal in that country.
But your internet provider could choose not to serve that content, saying that it was a company that respected family values and that those sites had high potential for malware infections.
I'd rather some potential sex offender spend all his time looking at porn then go out and rape some poor woman.
Potential sex offenders will become sex offenders regardless of their access to porn.
The real question for me is "Does an ".xxx" provide the public with any value? The only value I can see is that it will make it easy for groups to censor adult material. So I am totally against approving the existence of ".xxx" sites
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No way an ISP would block it, they'd lose 90% of their customers.
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That seems to be the pop psychology thought and one that is a helpful assumption to womens' rights groups, but the idea that rape is an act of violence and not a sexual act doesn't seem to be accepted by the professional psychology community. For one thing, rape and sexual violence are not necessarily the same thing, although again it is helpful for certain agendas to group them together.
And it's still a horrible idea (Score:2, Interesting)
YRO? (Score:5, Insightful)
It scares the hell out of me,' says Malcolm Day, head of AdultShop.com, adding that if adult websites weren't allowed to have '.com' domains and could only register under the '.xxx' address, then 'many governments (across the world) would try to block them.'"
They better not try that here, we have the Human Rights Act
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(I don't care what anyone else says, fapping is a human right..)
I have the weight of the legal world behind me! (most of them are wankers
Look at just some of the ancillary... (Score:4, Funny)
Look at some of the ancillary companies that would be affected
The Kao Corporation [The makers of Jergens Lotion]
Kimberly-Clark [The makers of Kleenex brand tissues]
HanesBrands [Worldwide distributors of gym socks]
S. C. Johnson & Son [Manufactures of several cleaning agents, including Windex]
Safer Networking Limited [Developer of Spybot - Search and Destroy]
Chiquita Brands International Inc. [Grower of the famous Chiquita Banana]
Maytag Corporation [World famous creator of Washing Machines]
Won't somebody think of the private industry?!
Double Standards (Score:1)
Clean porn ? No thanks ! (Score:5, Funny)
"Backers of '.xxx' have billed the proposal as a way for the adult-entertainment industry to clean up its act,"
Personally, I'd prefer if they kept the acts nice 'n' dirty.
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This is many separate issues (Score:1)
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2) filtering out certain websites at home or work is perfectly acceptable and is NOT censorship.
3) the government or other ruling bodies prohibiting access to any sort of website IS censorship and it depends on your country if this acceptable/legal or not.
whether or not to have a specifi
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The issues aren't separate. Once you ghettoize porn into an .xxx domain, it makes it much easier (both technically and politically) to block. In fact, it's likely the default would become to block the .xxx domain. Not just for corporations, but for ISPs (at the urging of the more prudish members of the community). Oh, and when the company filters websites at work it IS censorship, just on a smaller scale (and perhaps more justifiable).
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they use
if someone blocks a domain you are not happy with then change ISP - there are always choices.
My picks for the .xxx domains in the US (Score:1, Funny)
My initial list of what organizations that would be required to use .xxx domains in the United States:
and for the coup de gr
Flamebait?!? (Score:2)
Ouch, modded as flamebait? Do those who moderated my post not see the huge potential abuse for a .xxx domain in the US? Both Federal and State legislatures could have a field day with who's required to use a .xxx domain.
as usual... (Score:3, Insightful)
i say the basic problem is the non-national TLDs, at least as long as this planet is not under one government.
why? because as long as that is the case, there will be multiple, conflicting interests about those TLDs.
and sadly, thanks to the dot-com era and similar, the economic sharks smell money in relation to trade in domain names, meaning it will be nearly impossible to dismantle the existing system unless someone pays the owners of the non-national domains at least as much as they payed for them in the first place.
You can't filter the Internet, so just stop. (Score:2)
You can't filter the Internet. Ain't gonna happen. No way in hell. If you think you can, take a look at the rather futile attempts done today. Websites and domain names are stood up by the hundreds every damn day, making the task pretty much impossible. You can't even filter it, and now you want to try and put "content"(as defined by whom, yet another issue) into TLD "buckets"? Riiiight. Give me a break.
Trying to control or filter the Internet is like trying to make the freeway safe for your new teen
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You can use any DNS server you want.
They would be stupid not to establish it now (Score:2)
What would get a .xxx? (Score:1)
TLD is a dumb place to do any filtering (Score:2)
Filtering at the TLD level is an all or nothing proposition: either all of an *.xxx website's content is filtered (along with all other *.xxx sites) or none of it is. As far as filtering systems go, it is the coarsest and least intelligent. While I'd be very much opposed to any kind of government-mandated tagging and filtering, if your goal is to filter based on a webmaster's idea of what's obscene then you're much better off using something like Lawrence Lessig's H2M tag.
Of course, what I really want is fo
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Coat of Arms of Amsterdam (Score:2)
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Assuming for the sake of argument that the statement is true, how is "men would have raped without porn" not a good reason to have porn? What are the downsides of porn that are so severe that they outweigh the advantage of less rape?
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What are the downsides of porn that are so severe that they outweigh the advantage of less rape?
The "less rape" part is bullshit. You can jerk off even if nobody's fucking on a screen in front of you.
Aside from that, I don't see anything wrong with porn. Sex is exactly as natural as eating and breathing. Get over it.
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Sex is to eating and breathing
as
commercialized pornography is to eating-then-purging and smoking cigarettes.
Re:Well (Score:5, Insightful)
Why would you need a good excuse for porn anyway. You don't need to say "But I'm only human" or that porn saves people from getting raped. You can just say you enjoy fapping every now and then, it's not a secret that everyone does it. Even some girls do it daily, and it's also fun thing to do with your girlfriend. Those who are against porn have issues, not those who like to enjoy life and along with it sexuality too.
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My hobby is watching porn and masturbating.
Re:Well (Score:4, Funny)
I only watch porn for the plot and character development.
Re:Well (Score:5, Funny)
Yes Dude, I hear you. I recently watched a porn named "Logjammin" and was disrupted before the end. Since then, I started to wonder what had happend next: Did he fix the cable or didn't he?
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Don't be fatuous Jeffrey
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My hobby is watching porn and masturbating.
Go 'way! I'm 'batin!
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I always wondered why I got random boners when walking grandmom down the street. Now I know grandmom was just pornography!
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