Posted on 08/20/2011 9:43:55 AM PDT by SanFranDan
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has always known how to use sexual imagery to advance its political agenda.
According to Reuters, the animal rights group is planning on taking this further by actually launching a pornographic website:
In preparation for a new triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate Web addresses.
The domain operator administering the .xxx domain is accepting early applications from brand owners who want control over their names. ICM Registry says it has received over 900,000 "expressions of interest" from companies that want to preregister their trademarks or block others from snapping them up to create, say, a Barbie.xxx or Coke.xxx. [...]
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals also signed up. However, instead of blocking its name, said PETA spokeswoman Lindsay Rajt, the organization will launch peta.xxx as a pornography site that draws attention to the plight of animals.
Not surprisingly, the folks at the Huffington Post were very excited by this:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Does this have something to do with Mexico, and donkeys?
PETA.xxx, because showing bestiality really drives home the point that people = animals.
Naaahh, they’re just horsing around...
OH boy these are bad.
The woman who runs that organization is really mentally ill. (I can’t think of her name right now.)
I read a long piece about her and PETA years ago, written by a basically sympathetic author.
He may not have stated it explicitly, but by the end it was pretty clear he was convinced she was nuts. He certainly made her insanity plain to the reader.
Has Peter Singer commented on this yet? Have they consulted him? I think he would strongly approve of this.
Hopefully Jim got it first.
> Whose boneheaded idea was the .xxx domain int he first place?
As usual, follow the money.
The domain registrars and their friends at ICANN realized that by creating a TLD called ".XXX" they would be printing money as millions of "clean" companies and individuals rushed to claim and neuter "{clean_name}.xxx", and millions of "{dirty_name}.com" porn sites rushed to claim and link to "{dirty_name}.xxx". It is legal blackmail, pure and simple.
Reasonable people saw this many years ago as the scam it is.
But ICANN shrewdly co-opted the anti-porn crusaders, telling them (lies) about how this would "protect the children". So they got support from all over as naive people and organizations rushed to support the idea of ".xxx".
That's not the end of it, either. The ".xxx" scam is so successful they've already launched the even bigger followup.
Recently ICANN announced that they would also open *ANY* TLD with any company or individual name or initials. What is (say) Microsoft, going to do, ignore the abuse potential of "{anything}.microsoft"? Of course, they have to buy the TLD that bears their name before someone else does. And the TLD's don't go for the $20-50 per year of simple domains -- they go for upwards of $100,000 each!! What a racket. Legal blackmail.
Follow the money.
PETA doesn’t love animals, either. PETA simply wants to control people who own animals or eat animals or wear animal fur.
All of these campaigns were originally part of the communist agenda. The anti-fur campaign began as a union organizing method. The communists hired a bunch of thugs to break into shops where fur coats were made and cut up thousands of dollars worth of fur. They were trying to make the furrier worker part of the needle worker unions.
The anti-meat eating campaign was just a control thing.
at some point trademark violations become actionable.
Oh you jerk! I saw that befor and never wanted to see another second of it ever again. I think it will make you retarded if you watch it in it’s entirety
Is the .xxx domain voluntary for porn sites? Seems to me that having .xxx domains will make it easy to filter them out, I don’t think that porn site operators are going to be to thrilled about that, why would they want to use the .xxx domain in the first place?
Pray for America
Indeed. It is a sad commentary on Fallen Man, that just as technology in general advances most rapidly in the service of war, the advance of media technology has largely been fueled by pornography: many of the first printed books with large press runs and profit margins for the printers were salacious, most of the photographic supplies sold in Victorian England went to pornographers, VHS beat out the arguably superior BetaMax video format due to the preference of the porn industry for the cheaper medium, and yes, the internet is largely used for and paid for by pornography.
It’s all true!
How many people have read he Canterbury tales?
Now, how many people have looked at female tails in print?
Sorry! LoL
Actually this is more apropos to the subject.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/177554/coupling-inferno
There is no requirement whatsoever that porn sites be restricted to .xxx domains. As such, most porn sites will continue on unchanged at their present .com addresses.
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
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