Posted on 11/05/2005 6:30:54 AM PST by Who is Truth?
Voluntary .xxx Domain "for Responsible Companies" 8/23/2005 1:12:00 PM
Just how responsible can pornographers be?
The latest proposal for new website domains is (dot) xxx, which would theoretically distinguish these websites from others as being pornographic. The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a dot xxx domain, and Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, has asked for a hold to be placed on the contract to run the new top-level domain until the .xxx suffix can receive further scrutiny.
Gallagher stated, "The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children."
ICM Registry--the for-profit company in Florida that plans to operate the .xxx registry--has told reported that it would agree to a month's delay in the approval process to permit it to "address the concerns" raised by the Bush administration and other governments.
Jason Hendeles, founder of ICM Registry, says, "We're focusing our attention on the Department of Commerce and ensuring that we're building this as a voluntary (top-level domain) for responsible companies."
The big question that looms is: Just how responsible can pornographers be?
Source: CNET news.com, August 15, 2005
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ALL speech should be free, or can we, as a society, decide that some speech is too offensive?
See the OSP (open source porn) initiative.
I don't think anyone has answered your question as to why the Bush administration would object to the .xxx domain. I think it's a good idea. It would make it much easier to filter out the garbage when surfing the web, yet still protect "free speech" concerns.
I think it is a good ideal as well. What tropical hell-hole has been chosen for their new domain?
How would this affect foreign domain sites? I have a feeling these people would find a work around to continue to prey upon unsuspecting people.
.xxx should only be allowed if the administrators of the .com, .biz, .net, etc domains ban porn sites from their control -- otherwise it is completely pointless.
porn is a drug and it works just like other drugs... by luring. pornographers are not going to happily isolate themselves into a corner where they can be easily blocked and ignored. it just is not going to happen by default.
on top of that you're going to have companies having to buy (and thus financially support) their .xxx domain to protect it. ibm.xxx, microsoft.xxx, whitehouse.xxx, etc.
the .xxx domain just give pornographers free reign w/o bumping them off of the existing domains.
now, i would FULLY support putting them in their own red light district if it also got them out of the business/commercial district.
Letfreedomring.com did not have the author listed, just the source as CNETnews.com.
Once again, I DID NOT WRITE THE "Just how responsible can pornographers be? article.
My apologies to the author. Please forgive me.
Mods, please make the fix?
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Getting the pornsters to yank up their .com and .net roots and go to .xxx would be unenforceable in many parts of the world. A lot of porn is US based but by no means all of it.
Besides, the free market is already taking care of online porn. There's tons of blockers and programs that consumers can buy, such as NetNanny and Cybersitter.
" + " what does this mean?
They'd be free to produce any kind of garbage and, as long as it's rated properly, be free to market it.
Oh, they already are? Well then, they certainly don't need a .XXX domain then do they?
Later pingout. An xxx domain is better than what there is now. At least the sickness can be contained.
Michael Moore was hoping to use that domain for his personal line of plus-size designer clothing stores. :0)
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