Porn Might Still Get Web Domain
Internet Oversight Agency Revives Plan For .XXX Web Addresses
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The use of the proposed ".xxx" domain name would remain voluntary, but any porn sites that choose to use it instead of the more popular ".com" would be subject to the new terms issued late Friday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The idea of a separate ".xxx" domain has generated significant opposition from conservative groups and even some pornography Web sites.
But ICANN officials said they initially rejected the proposal in May not because of the opposition but because of concerns that the agency might be put in a difficult position of having to enforce all of the world's laws governing pornography. They noted that various nations' speech-related laws sometimes conflict with one another.
The new proposal does not directly address any potential conflicts in laws, but it calls for the company backing it, ICM Registry Inc. of Jupiter, Florida, to hire independent organizations to monitor porn sites' compliance with the new rules.
ICANN, the agency in Marina del Rey, California, designated by the U.S. government to oversee domain name policies, opened the proposal to public comment but did not indicate when it would rule.
If approved, ICM would be required to help develop mechanisms for promoting child safety and preventing child pornography, "including practices that appeal to pedophiles or suggest the presence of child pornography on the site."
Porn sites would have to participate in a self-descriptive labeling system, likely one from the Internet Content Rating Association. Under it, Web sites add tags based on such criteria as the presence of nudity and whether it is in an artistic or educational context, such as for sites on breast feeding. Relatively few sites now participate, although major Web browsers have mechanisms for reading the tags.
ICM also would have to develop automated tools to check for compliance and give users ways to report violations.
ICM believes the domain would help the $12 billion (euro9.17 billion) online porn industry clean up its act, as those using it must abide by rules designed to bar such trickery as spamming and malicious scripts.
Anti-porn advocates, however, countered that sites would be free to keep their current ".com" address, in effect making porn more easily accessible by creating yet another channel to house it.
Many porn sites also objected, fearing that an ".xxx' domain would pave the way for governments or even private industry to filter speech that is protected in the United States by the First Amendment.
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This way, computers could default to no access to the porn domain and the owner would have to prove they were 18 to reverse it or something. Businesses would be able to shut it out all together. Think of the increase in work productivity.
"It's should be "its." Basic English that my cat knows.
Yeah no chit, the CONservatives object to anything and everything, if I had my way I'd ship the dam lot of them and their moron churches off to Siberia or somewhere where they can spend 24/7 worshipping Santa Claus in the sky for the rest of their days.
Trouble is they want their cake and to eat it TOO, the best way to deal with the FREE SPEECH of porn is give it it's own domain name so the rest of us can block it, view it or whatever.
"It's should be 'its.' Basic English that my cat knows. "
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I don't know how you trained your cat in proper English. I can't even get mine to stop putting her tail in the middle of the screen when she sleeps on top of the monitor!
You shouldn't be so critical of peoples' misuse of "its" and "it's" because a whole generation or two of us were actually taught that "it's" is correct when the possessive case is meant. It has only been in the last 15 years or so that schools are teaching otherwise. When you criticize people about this, you're showing not only your young age, but its concomitant ignorance. =)
As for the .*** domains, I agree with others that moving it to its own domain would be wise because it allows those who wish to avoid porn an easy method of filtering, and those who wish to find it, a likewise easier method to do so. This move will only be effective, however, if we require them all to migrate to .*** within x number of years, perhaps as their .com domains come up for renewal. Of course, under any .*** scenario, existing porn sites have their .com domain names automatically reserved for them under .*** (per ICM Registry,) so they needn't worry about losing them.
This could have saved a lot of people frustration if implemented earlier.
I agree with you on one of 2 things (I know, I do not have to agree or disagree with anything, it is all an opinion) Number one, the last part of your statement, about the kids, I agree whole-heartly. I have a 12 year old grandson who is not blocked and I definitely have issues with that, his sister and parents. The parent thinks he can make up his own mind. The sister takes the bunt of his jokes. I disagree he has no say-so until the ripe ole age of 21 on that stuff.
Number 2, I am in my late 60%u2019s and I made my living for 20 years from the %u201CPorn%u201D industry. You can let it go, it can be forgotten, you can make a change never to have it in your sights again, and I did. It is all a matter of %u201Cwill power%u201D and the almighty. Yes, the %u201CAlmighty%u201D helped the most.
Nobody should have to go to the library and type "kitten" into the search and up pops some PERVERT toxic pollution. All that stuff should be totally seperate. It really should NOT even be on the web. Its more stupid than pouring gasoline into the rivers and streams.They got rid of DDT poison and took in pervert hugh heffner back in the old days. DUH!
Giving porn its own Domain isn't limiting freedom of speech, it is just getting porn out of the face of kids from ages 1 to 18.
I think we also need to greatly reduce the amount of violence that our kids see.
Now watch, someone is going to say, "what's wrong with school violence?" or "Our kids have a right to play murder game 24 / 7".
I hate it when someone corrects spelling cause I can't spell.
Everyone has spell check, it is just an extra step. So simple, create a "WORD" document, cut and paste. easy!
Spell check saves me every time but it doesn't catch it all.
Like childabusers, perverts are so on the loose because the powers that be, or the weaklings that say they are in "power" are so like wet spagetti so they can't muster up the backbone it takes to clean out perverts and childabusers.
The "powers" that be, hide behind "confidentiality" and "HE'S got HIS rights!" as I was told when trying to battle off a perverse childabuser. "HE's got HIS rights!" which is basically, "you don't count worth nothing!"
Personally, I am deeply thankful that we have freedom of speech, but part of that means allowing others to use it in ways with which I would whole-heartedly disagree. Is that a contradiction? Is it a contradiction that I love Jesus so much it makes me cry and laugh, but I also thought "Borat" was hilarious? I don't think so. But I also don't think that it is my job to tell others how to live. I have a hard enough time figuring it all out myself. Loving God seems to be the "rule" worth mentioning. So, if they want porn, they'll get porn; and I'll do my best to help heal the wounds in the aftermath.
Posted by du_anek at 02:54 PM : Jan 07, 2007
are you some sort of nut that enjoys seeing the wounds in the first place, when it would be so much smarter to PREVENT the wounds in the first place?
this goes at your favorite restaurant, at your child's party, when you are trying to be sophisticated, when you are graduating college,when you are getting married....someone has their "rights" to pass gas on you, and "YOU should have stopped them first".
Like Dr. Phil says the worst stress is being held accountable for something you have NO CONTROL over.
I don%u2019t think I looked at a naked set of hooters until I was 20. Just exaggerating, but it was a hell of a long time even before I thought about any porn stuff. A good old fashioned beating did some good then as it would now!!!!!!
I vote with the Muslims on this one. Why don't the Christians have the same backbone?Instead of some unsuspecting cab driver having to cart the liquor busineses "time bombs" around after they get snakkered, the BAR should be FINED for not taking care of their customers!
Instead of doing the healthy way, the powers that be in Minnesota, royal embarrasements, put the screws to the DRIVERS and fine them! Duh! just like the powers that be, with the porn on the web. DUH!
Who COSTS more money to the taxpayers? the cab drivers or the snakkered? and govt. covers for the drunks. what is crazy about this picture?
Ted Bundy was trying to tell the public some of where he got his start, but the money media,and porn people don't want to listen.
ICM JUST WHANTS A PICE OF THAT $12 BILLION!
THAY THANK WE ARE STUPID..
Why the sudden outcry of a .*** extension? Could it be the industry leaders are more concerned about money in their pockets than people not wanting to expose their children to such material?
Not to mention, the approval of the .*** domain would save millions in anti-porn filter development. All you would have to do is block the domain type, and your children would be safe - nothing to slip through the cracks.
Failure to act would make them susceptible to legal action.
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by hermit22
January 8, 2007 1:13 AM PST
- since the library can say, "shhhh, no talking in the library", they certainly can put the kabash on perverts, like they have on smoking in the library.
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See all 34 Commentsif all the perverts were put on an island, what would their culture be like in ten years?